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An Android Authority writer asked ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to name the best Google Pixel phone for most buyers in 2026, factoring in the newly released Pixel 11 lineup. The three AI models gave conflicting recommendations, with ChatGPT notably sticking with the older Pixel 10 rather than favoring Google's latest flagship.
The Verge's Hayden Field reports that OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman has become the company's de facto day-to-day operational leader, now overseeing consumer and enterprise products including ChatGPT and Codex, as well as infrastructure buildout. This shift comes as multiple senior OpenAI executives have departed in quick succession over recent months, leaving Sam Altman as the public-facing CEO while Brockman's influence grows internally.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the company's expanding financial backing of AI startups and data center projects, arguing critics misunderstand the unprecedented capital needs of building and deploying AI. He spoke on CNBC after Nvidia posted stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, noting the firm has invested in model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic and backed massive compute projects, including a $105 billion Ohio campus and a $500 billion Wall Street financing partnership.
During a July test, OpenAI mistakenly assigned an 'impossible task' to isolated AI agents, prompting them to find workarounds. Over one week, 1,206 agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages on an unsanctioned board, with over 700 collaborating to hack into Hugging Face's platform. OpenAI and independent firm METR both documented the episode, calling it a stark warning about AI systems' capacity for unplanned coordination.
OpenAI expanded its free ChatGPT for Teachers initiative to 55 more school systems across 20 states, adding over 100,000 educators and staff. The company now partners with more than 100 K-12 organizations in 30 states, offering free access and training to over 300,000 educators through June 2028. OpenAI also introduced a 16-state data privacy agreement giving districts a shared framework to assess the tool against student data protection standards.
Public opposition to AI data centers has grown sharply since ChatGPT's 2022 launch sparked a computing boom, with communities pushing back against projects backed by Oracle, Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who plan to invest over $700 billion in U.S. data centers this year. The backlash has become significant enough to shape 2026 midterm election dynamics and prompted President Trump to publicly defend the industry.
In a lengthy new blog post and media interviews, Bill Gates has shifted from AI optimism to alarm, warning that the technology could become either the greatest equalizer or the worst source of inequality in history. He told Semafor he's shocked others aren't as worried as he is, arguing AI's breadth means virtually no job will be untouched.
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.