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ChatGPT Search gets an upgrade as OpenAI takes aim at Google

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-12 19:53:46

On June 13, OpenAI began rolling out a new ChatGPT Search update to improve quality as the AI startup challenges Google’s dominance. ChatGPT Search has been around for about a year and allows users to search the web more effectively than Google. It tries to summarize content from websites to provide quick answers and includes links to sources so you can fact-check everything. “This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quot

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Why ads are coming to your favorite AI bots and you've only got yourself to blame

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-03-13 05:05:00

Bloomberg Intelligence Most consumers don't want to pay to chat with a chatbot, according to a recent poll by Bloomberg Intelligence. That means advertising -- rather than subscription-based services -- will be the route to monetizing large language models. "The propensity to pay for generative-AI tools remains low," writes the author, Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence senior industry analyst, with the help of Damian Reimertz, contributing analyst, in the report, "Generative AI's trillion-

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Silicon Valley tech execs are joining the US Army Reserve

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-03-13 19:19:37

In Brief Chief technology officers (CTOs) from companies, including Palantir, Meta and OpenAI, are taking part-time roles in the U.S. Army Reserve. In October, the U.S. Defense Department put out the call to top Silicon Valley talent to take high-ranking positions in the U.S. Army Reserve so they could periodically be tapped for short-term projects in areas like data and cybersecurity, The Wall Street Journal reported at the time. Now, eight months later, Silicon Valley is reporting for duty.

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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling

news.ycombinator.com Kashmir Hill 2026-03-15 00:48:43

“You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son’s obituary using ChatGPT,” Mr. Taylor said. “I had talked to it for a while about what had happened, trying to find more details about exactly what he was going through. And it was beautiful and touching. It was like it read my heart and it scared the shit out of me.” ‘Approach These Interactions With Care’ I reached out to OpenAI, asking to discuss cases in which ChatGPT was reinforcing delusional thinking and aggravating users’ mental health

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toymaking, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-03-15 21:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toymaker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-03-16 03:14:38

NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty In his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the Singularity -- the moment in which machine intelligence surpasses our own -- would occur around the year 2045. Sam Altman believes it's much closer. In a blog post published Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO delivered a homily devoted to what he views as the imminent arrival of artificial "superintelligence." Whereas artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is usually defined as a computer

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OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toy-making, other products

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-03-16 07:44:33

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toy-maker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up

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OpenAI will reportedly start using Google's cloud servers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-15 18:23:12

This is another move by the company to diversify its compute portfolio beyond Microsoft Azure. OpenAI has inked a deal with Google to begin using the latter's cloud service to meet its growing needs for increased computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters . This is something of a surprise, given that Google and OpenAI are rivals in the AI space. The terms of the deal remain unknown, but reporting indicates it has been in the negotiation phase for the past several months. This marks O

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ChatGPT outage: OpenAI reports 'elevated error rates' for several hours

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-03-16 08:20:14

ChatGPT was down for some users on Tuesday, with nearly 2,000 outage reports on Downdetector, a site that logs user reports of internet issues. OpenAI said there was a full recovery in the API at 3:24 p.m. EDT but the status still showed a "degraded performance." "We are monitoring and working towards a full recovery of ChatGPT," the status update said. The artificial intelligence chatbot gave some users a "Too many concurrent requests" message, or would not answer questions. The OpenAI stat

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Investment CEO Tells Convention Audience That 60 Percent of Them Will Be Unemployed Next Year Due to AI

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-17 04:10:08

Although hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into AI development, nearly 75 percent of businesses have failed to deliver the return on investment promised to them. The hyped up tech is notoriously buggy and in some ways now actually getting worse, with project failure rates on the rise. Despite staring into the maw of a colossal money pit, tech CEOs are doubling down, announcing plans to increase spending on AI development, going as far as laying off armies of workers to cut down o

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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-17 08:36:49

In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an important question: which of these streams should drive AI development? Yesterday, neural scientist, AI scholar and outspoken OpenAI critic Gary Marcus

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ChatGPT o3 API 80% price drop has no impact on performance

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-17 12:06:33

ChatGPT o3 API is now cheaper for developers, and there's no visible impact on performance. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced it's cutting the price of its best reasoning model, o3, by 80%. ChatGPT price reduction This means o3’s input price is now just $2 per million tokens, while the output price has dropped to $8 per million tokens. "We optimized our inference stack that serves o3. Same exact model—just cheaper," OpenAI noted in a post on X. While regular users typically don't use ChatGPT m

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Why OpenAI and Google's surprising new alliance makes a lot of AI sense

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-03-17 05:50:40

MF3d/Getty Images In geopolitics, nations with conflicting societal norms or ideological views must occasionally form alliances in the interest of protecting their mutual interests; practicality must take precedence over past rivalries. Today, a similar dynamic is starting to play out in the AI arms race. OpenAI, the AI start-up that skyrocketed to global fame following the viral success of its ChatGPT chatbot, has teamed up with Google, its longtime competitor, according to a Reuters report.

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ChatGPT Defeated at Chess by 1970s-Era Atari 2600

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 05:38:00

OpenAI's ChatGPT has some major competitors in the market: Gemini, Copilot, Claude. Now add to that list the Atari 2600. The OG video game console, which was first released in 1977, was used in an engineer's experiment to see how it would fare playing chess against the AI chatbot. By using a software emulator to run Atari's 1979 game Video Chess, Citrix engineer Robert Caruso said he was able to set up a match between ChatGPT and the 46-year-old game. The matchup did not go well for ChatGPT. "

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OpenAI Launches Improved Version of Latest Reasoning Model. Here's What It's Best For

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-17 08:16:47

OpenAI this week announced an improved version of its o3 generative AI reasoning model, saying it performed better on benchmarks and is designed to spend more time thinking on difficult problems. The new model, called o3-pro, is now available for Pro and Team users in ChatGPT and API users, and will come to Enterprise and Edu users next week. In its release notes, OpenAI said the model is similar to o1-pro, which users favored for its math, science and coding skills. It incorporates improvement

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Apple Is Pushing AI Into More of Its Products—but Still Lacks a State-of-the-Art Model

wired.com Will Knight 2026-03-15 12:22:26

Apple continued its slow-and-steady approach to integrating artificial intelligence into devices like the iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch on Monday, announcing a raft of new features and upgrades at WWDC. The company also premiered the Foundation Models framework, a way for developers to write code that taps into Apple’s AI models. Among the buzzier AI announcements at the event was Live Translation, a feature that translates phone and FaceTime calls from one language to another in real time. Appl

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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-03-17 04:30:00

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model available in ChatGPT, to test the AI’s tendency to favor its own self-preservation, even if it’s at the expense of a user’s safety. In one test, Adler instructed GPT-4

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Sam Altman-backed Coco Robotics raises $80M

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2026-03-17 08:40:15

In Brief Los Angeles-based Coco Robotics, a startup building last-mile delivery robots, announced it raised $80 million on Wednesday. The funding round included angel investors Sam Altman and Max Altman, both returning investors, in addition to VC firms like Pelion Venture Partners and Offline Ventures, among others. This brings the company’s total funding to more than $120 million. The company last raised a $36 million Series A round in 2021. Coco’s zero-emissions robots can hold 90 liters’

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What's Behind OpenAI's Recent Growth Spurt to 400M Weekly Users?

cnet.com Omar Gallaga 2025-11-10 12:59:00

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says more than 400 million people a week are now actively using its artificial intelligence tools, a jump from the 300 million it reported this past December. OpenAI touted the figure this week, also telling media outlets that it's doubled its number of paid enterprise users to 2 million since September, and that its developer traffic has also doubled in the last six months. The news may surprise people who expected the rise of China's DeepSeek AI model to disrupt the grow

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ChatGPT’s weekly user base has exceeded the entire US population

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:55:19

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT has crossed 400 million weekly users, marking a 33% increase in just three months despite rising AI competition. More people are adopting ChatGPT through word of mouth, with personal use driving its continued growth. OpenAI’s enterprise business is also expanding, now with 2 million paying users as companies integrate AI into their workflows. The AI chatbot battle continues to reshape the tech landscape, but OpenAI — the company behind ChatGP

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 15:04:51

OpenAI has banned the accounts of a group of Chinese users who had attempted to use ChatGPT to debug and edit code for an AI social media surveillance tool, the company said Friday . The campaign, which OpenAI calls Peer Review, saw the group prompt ChatGPT to generate sales pitches for a program those documents suggest was designed to monitor anti-Chinese sentiment on X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other platforms. The operation appears to have been particularly interested in spotting call

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Report: OpenAI plans to shift compute needs from Microsoft to SoftBank

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-10 12:22:40

In Brief OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By 2030, OpenAI expects to get three-quarters of its data center capacity from Stargate, a project that’s expected to be heavily financed by SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s newest financial backers. That represents a major shift away from Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest shareholder, who fulfills most of the startup’s power needs today. The change w

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ChatGPT's AI agent Operator is now available for most Pro users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 11:30:50

It's now out for most regions where ChatGPT is also available, though the EU isn't included. Operator is now out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and most places where ChatGPT is also available, OpenAI has announced. The company launched Operator in the US back in January, introducing it as an "agent that can go to the web to perform tasks" for the user. Operator can handle various browser-based tasks for users, such as filling out forms, making restaur

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DeepSeek to open source parts of online services code

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-11-10 12:36:46

In Brief Chinese AI lab DeepSeek plans to open source portions of its online services’ code as part of an “open source week” event next week. DeepSeek will open source five code repositories that have been “documented, deployed and battle-tested in production,” the company said in a post on X on Thursday. Code repositories are storage locations for software development assets, and typically contain source code as well as configuration files and project documentation. “As part of the open-sou

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OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek's emergence

cnbc.com Kate Rooney 2025-11-10 06:57:17

Brad Lightcap of OpenAI. Courtesy: OpenAI OpenAI appears to be growing quickly despite increasing competition. The San Francisco-based tech company had 400 million weekly active users as of February, up 33% from 300 million in December, the company's chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, told CNBC. These numbers have not been previously reported. Lightcap pointed to the "natural progression" of ChatGPT as it becomes more useful and familiar to a broader group of people. "People hear about it

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-10 10:47:16

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the company’s growing reach across both consumer and enterprise markets, according to an X post from chief operating officer Brad Lightcap on Thursday. The rapid expansion comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Elon Musk’s xAI and China’s DeepSeek, b

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ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly active users

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 12:36:35

ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users. "We feel very fortunate to serve 5 percent of the world every week," OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said on X about the new audience stat. This figure is twice the weekly active user count reported by the company in August 2024 , which was double the figure it posted in November 2023. The latest milestone for the AI assistant comes after a huge uproar over new rival platform DeepSeek earlier in the year, which raised questions about whether the c

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OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner

gizmodo.com Kyle Barr 2025-11-10 12:06:06

OpenAI may be preparing to slap a new coat of paint on ChatGPT with an updated AI model, GPT-4.5, as early as next week. If that’s not enough to get users excited, the Sam Altman-led company is on the path toward its ultimate model while trying to hint that this next step will finally achieve “AGI.” Spoiler alert: it won’t. Based on anonymous sources, the Verge’s Tom Warren first reported that OpenAI’s next model could hit the scene sometime this month. Microsoft reportedly plans to host the co

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OpenAI now serves 400M users every week

techcrunch.com Romain Dillet 2025-11-10 12:45:35

In Brief OpenAI is increasingly looking like a consumer company, telling CNBC that it now has 400 million weekly active users. Usage is still growing at a rapid pace as the AI developer behind the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, “only” had 300 million users in December 2024. Though OpenAI has not revealed the number of paid customers with an active subscription to ChatGPT Plus or ChatGPT Pro. On the B2B front, ChatGPT’s enterprise plans are growing nicely: OpenAI now has 2 million paying enterprise users

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