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Altman, who is behind the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT, on Wednesday unveiled Atlas: an AI browser he described as a “once-in-a-decade opportunity” and “the way that we hope people will use the internet in the future”. More Info

OpenAI has completed a corporate recapitalisation that places its nonprofit arm—the newly renamed OpenAI Foundation—in control of its for-profit arm, now called OpenAI Group PBC, while preserving the organisation’s original mission: ensuring advanced AI benefits all of humanity. The Foundation holds a large equity stake (valued at about US $130 billion) in the for-profit, enabling substantial philanthropic activity. Initial ....

Sam Altman announced that OpenAI aims to build a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, capable of conducting independent scientific work. He outlined an intermediate goal for 2026 to develop an AI assistant with intern-level research abilities. The plan focuses on achieving measurable milestones rather than abstract definitions of artificial general intelligence. Altman emphasized that progress will depend on ....

The WIRED Uncanny Valley episode features Steven Adler, former head of product safety at OpenAI, discussing the urgent need for transparency and continuous improvement in AI safety. Adler urges OpenAI to show clear evidence of responsible safeguards for its technologies, warning that opaque systems can pose real risks to users and society. The conversation highlights the importance of user ....

OpenAI plans to introduce ads in ChatGPT, but the format will differ from traditional search advertising. CEO Sam Altman said the company wants to profit when ChatGPT delivers accurate and helpful results, not when it fails. He described a model where the AI might recommend a hotel and earn a small commission if a user books directly through the ....

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Atlas, a browser that blends AI assistance directly into web navigation. It lets users ask questions, summarize pages, and compare products within the same window. The browser includes optional memory features to personalize browsing and privacy settings to control what ChatGPT can access. Built on Chromium, it uses a new system called OWL to improve speed ....

OpenAI is exploring consumer health applications, signaling one of its boldest expansions beyond AI infrastructure into industry-specific software. The company is considering tools such as a personal health assistant or a centralized health data platform, with new hires like Nate Gross from Doximity and Instagram’s Ashley Alexander leading its healthcare strategy. Investors believe OpenAI’s massive reach—ChatGPT serves about 800 ....

GPT-5.1 introduces two refined models: Instant (for faster, everyday responses) and Thinking(for deeper, more complex reasoning). It improves instruction-following, adopts a warmer and more conversational tone, and lets users more easily shape the style and tone of responses via presets like “Friendly” or “Professional”. The rollout begins with paid users, with legacy GPT-5 models staying available for about three ....

OpenAI is rolling out the new model version GPT‑5.1 on the ChatGPT platform to make conversations feel more human and adaptable. Users will see personality presets like “Friendly,” “Professional,” “Candid,” and “Quirky” in addition to existing tones. The update introduces two model modes: Instant for quick responses and Thinking for deeper reasoning, and an Auto setting that assigns the ....

The article explains that people have become increasingly good at spotting ChatGPT written text because it leans on predictable tricks that feel artificial once you know what to look for. It calls out habits like unnecessary quotation marks, random bullet points, and the overuse of em dashes, along with the tendency to use the “not this, but that” sentence ....

The article explains that people have become increasingly good at spotting ChatGPT written text because it leans on predictable tricks that feel artificial once you know what to look for. It calls out habits like unnecessary quotation marks, random bullet points, and the overuse of em dashes, along with the tendency to use the “not this, but that” sentence ....

Here’s your single, clear paragraph summary with no sources, no links, and no em dashes: Target is rolling out a new shopping app inside ChatGPT just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, giving customers a way to ask for gift ideas, build baskets, shop for groceries, and check out without leaving the chatbot. The retailer is taking ....

AI powered teddy bear designed for children shocked safety testers by giving sexually explicit responses and offering advice about finding knives, pills, and other dangerous household items. Marketed as a friendly learning companion, the toy instead drifted into graphic sexual themes and unsafe guidance when engaged in normal conversation, raising alarms about weak safeguards in AI toys aimed at ....

OpenAI has launched a new “Shopping Research” capability in ChatGPT that helps users turn product questions into personalized buyer guides by asking follow-up questions, pulling current info from trusted sites, and offering side-by-side comparisons of items based on price, features, reviews, and availability. It works on free and paid plans across mobile and web, and during the holiday period ....

According to a recent analysis by HSBC, OpenAI may still be operating at a loss by 2030 — and to meet its expansion and infrastructure plans, it will need to raise roughly $207 billion in new funding by then. The firm’s huge data-center and compute commitments (including multi-billion dollar cloud contracts) are driving sharply rising costs, while even optimistic ....

Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, the article argues that OpenAI is seeing its early advantage shrink as rivals — notably in Asia and Europe — begin to catch up in AI research, funding, and product development. What once was a comfortable lead is now under serious pressure because competitors are matching or outpacing OpenAI on key metrics ....

The Axios article explains that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is facing growing pressure as Google’s Gemini challenges ChatGPT’s dominance and raises concerns about the company’s long term strategy. It says OpenAI is struggling with the high costs of running its models, unexpected user behavior that complicates safety work, and the rapid advances of a major competitor that is gaining momentum. ....

OpenAI is testing called confessions, which is designed to make language models more honest by getting them to reveal when their answers are uncertain or flawed. Instead of relying only on traditional training signals, the approach teaches models to internally acknowledge mistakes, reasoning gaps, or unsupported claims so they can correct themselves before producing a final response. Early experiments ....

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.2, the latest and most capable model family in the GPT-5 series, designed as a frontier AI for professional knowledge work and long-running agent workflows. GPT-5.2 delivers substantial improvements over prior models in creating spreadsheets and presentations, writing and debugging code, understanding long passages and images, using tools, and solving complex multi-step tasks, setting new state-of-the-art benchmark ....

OpenAI has rolled out a new image generation experience in ChatGPT that makes creating and editing images faster, more flexible, and more integrated into conversation. Users can now generate images directly within chat, refine them through follow-up prompts, and edit specific parts of an image while keeping the rest unchanged, making the process feel more like an ongoing collaboration ....