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AI-driven search tools such as Google's AI Overviews and conversational assistants like ChatGPT are increasingly pulling data from customer reviews to decide which businesses to recommend. This means the volume, recency and quality of a business's reviews are being read and weighted by algorithms, not just prospective customers. A thin or neglected review profile can make a business effectively invisible to these AI systems.
OpenAI has expanded access to ChatGPT's task scheduling hub, previously limited to paid tiers, so free account holders can now set up scheduled prompts. The company also added the ability to share scheduled tasks with other users, letting useful automations spread across workflows.
OpenAI has released an Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex that lets workspace administrators manage users, permissions and spending limits through a chat interface rather than a separate dashboard. The tool can generate usage reports, flag credit thresholds, and handle onboarding or offboarding tasks on request. A company demo showed an admin querying adoption trends and requesting visual breakdowns for a monthly review.
In an interview, OpenAI product lead Thibault Sottiaux explained that ChatGPT Work is meant to extend the capabilities of its Codex coding agent to non-technical, white-collar users. He said the product was bundled into the existing $20 Plus plan to make AI agent tools accessible to as broad an audience as possible, framing the effort as repackaging technical agent infrastructure into something safer and simpler for everyday use on mobile and web.
OpenAI removed a network of ChatGPT accounts traced to Russia after investigating AI-generated social media posts that led to a wider covert influence operation. The campaign centered on a website featuring plagiarized academic content and a 'sovereignty index' favorable to Russia, with operators using VPNs to mask their location since OpenAI blocks access within Russia.
OpenAI is bringing back five-hour usage limits for ChatGPT Plus subscribers using ChatGPT Work and Codex, starting August 25, after temporarily lifting them post-GPT-5.6 launch. Plus users will now draw from their weekly quota in five-hour blocks rather than using it freely, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers remain unaffected for now.
OpenAI will restore a five-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work on Plus subscriptions starting tomorrow, according to engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux. The cap had been temporarily suspended for several weeks, leaving only a weekly limit in place, but is now returning alongside that weekly cap. Pro subscribers on the $100 and $200 tiers will remain exempt from the five-hour restriction for the coming months.
OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT feature that converts uploaded photos into stickers with transparent backgrounds, letting users remix images, apply styles, or generate packs from prompts. Finished stickers can be exported directly to iMessage or WhatsApp, saved to a photo library, though WhatsApp requires a minimum of three stickers per export due to Meta's platform rules.
CNET ran a side-by-side comparison of ChatGPT and Gemini's ability to interpret images, including handwritten notes scribbled on an e-ink tablet using a passage from The Hound of the Baskervilles. In this test, ChatGPT struggled to correctly transcribe the messy handwriting, misreading key phrases and producing largely inaccurate output compared to what was actually written.
OpenAI now offers a cheaper ChatGPT Go tier worldwide for users who no longer need premium features, while also retiring GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026 despite earlier restoring it due to user demand. Separately, a Defense Department deal to deploy OpenAI's models on a classified network triggered a 295 percent single-day spike in US app uninstalls, prompting OpenAI to amend the agreement to bar domestic surveillance uses.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a $20/month product adapted from its Codex coding tool, aimed at giving white-collar workers—not just software engineers—access to AI agents that can autonomously complete multistep tasks. To function effectively, the tool requires deep access to users' digital lives, including email, Slack, phone data and apps like Notion and Figma, as demonstrated by OpenAI's own lead engineer who granted it broad control over his accounts.
Cheshire Academy, a Connecticut boarding school, decided against forcing a single AI platform on its staff and instead trained teachers on general principles for using generative AI responsibly. As a result, instructors now mix tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and the education-focused MagicSchool to help draft lesson plans and grading rubrics. Staff training emphasized both prompt-writing skills and the technology's tendency toward inaccurate or biased output.