According to a court filing reported by the Financial Times, OpenAI has disclosed that it was disappointed by weak iPhone user uptake of ChatGPT following its 2024 integration into Apple Intelligence. The filing states that a month after launch, adoption was already slow, prompting OpenAI to lower its projections for weekly active users, and by summer 2025 the company concluded the integration was significantly underperforming expectations.
OpenAI announced three updates to ChatGPT Voice mode. The feature now runs on the company's GPT-6 model family (Astra, Sol, and Luna), supports plugins such as email, calendar, and Slack, and works with ChatGPT Work across web and mobile.
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's mobile app now supports voice-triggered agentic workflows, letting users create documents, draft emails or summarize Slack messages through the Work tab. Plus and Pro subscribers get expanded capabilities including building sites, presentations and using a cloud browser, while Free and Go users can access plugins and connected apps. Users can also switch between text and voice mid-conversation and resume tasks started on mobile on desktop.
Vigilance Security researchers say attackers are seeding tens of thousands of web pages, PDFs, reviews and fake support portals with fraudulent phone numbers, emails and login links, aiming to get AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google AI Overview to surface them as trustworthy answers. The campaign, named Dark Sourcery, has reportedly affected at least 374 companies, including Fortune 100 firms, airlines, banks, travel companies and software providers.
Tom Siegel, formerly Google's vice president of trust and safety, told Reuters that AI is harming children at a scale exceeding social media's damage. He has become the first executive director of the Youth AI Safety Institute, a new initiative launched by children's advocacy group Common Sense Media, which counts Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation among its backers.
OpenAI has expanded its influencer marketing, more than doubling sponsored Instagram posts for ChatGPT from 61 in June to 141 in August, according to HypeAuditor data cited by Business Insider. The company is reportedly pitching parenting, fitness and tech creators, urging them to frame ChatGPT as useful for everyday life and business rather than address AI safety worries directly.
A report catalogs cases where users exposed themselves by relying on ChatGPT, including engineers leaking company data, litigants citing fake court cases, and a man poisoning himself following bad dietary advice. It notes that unlike conversations with doctors, lawyers or therapists, ChatGPT chats aren't legally privileged and can be subpoenaed, leaked, or preserved even after deletion.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, positioned as cheaper, more accurate successors to GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna, with API costs cut by 50%. OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol outperforms Claude Opus 5 at roughly 9% of its cost and matches Claude Fable 5.1 on coding tasks at lower cost, while making about half as many errors as its predecessor. Both models are rolling out today in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, with Luna also available to Free and Go plan users in the desktop app.
A commentator argues that since ChatGPT's 2022 launch, people have largely used AI for creative tasks like brainstorming, writing emails, and building strategies from scattered notes. The author contends this is the wrong use case, suggesting AI should instead handle routine, verifiable work where machines outperform humans.
British Columbia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman seeking compensation for the demolition and rebuilding of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where an 18-year-old shooter who had used ChatGPT to plan an attack killed five students and a staff member before dying by suicide in February. The province says the shooter also killed his mother and half-brother beforehand, and that the school was torn down in August because survivors were too traumatized to return.
A software engineer describes a two-day hackathon where a team of engineers and recruiters used the no-code AI platform Lovable to build 'HoneyCrew,' a referral-tracking tool with Slack integration and scraping features. After rapid progress on day one, the project collapsed into bugs and instability on day two, leaving the team scrambling before the final demo.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, follow-ups to its 5.6 models and companions to the recently released GPT-6 Astra, aimed at giving businesses and developers Astra-level capability at lower cost with higher usage limits. Anthropic simultaneously released Claude Opus 5.5, which it says matches Fable 5.1's performance while cutting costs nearly 40% compared to Opus 5, and calls its most aligned model yet.
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