… The move comes as OpenAI looks to expand its own advertising network inside ChatGPT. The company started rolling out ads at the bottom of ChatGPT outputs for US users in February. …
… OpenAI’s longtime head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, is moving to a new role to lead the company’s work on enterprise products. OpenAI says Turley, who has led ChatGPT since launch and helped grow it to more than 900 million weekly active users, will no longer work on its consumer products. …
… For example, when I asked ChatGPT how it could help improve my budget even more, the bot nudged me to consider uploading my complete financial history from the last few months for the best answers. “You don’t have to upload everything—but yes, the more real data you share, the more accurate and use… …
… It eventually morphed into ChatGPT Agent, but neither product ever saw significant adoption. Sottiaux says those attempts were “too early”—the models powering them weren’t reliable enough, so OpenAI had to heavily restrict what they could do. Now, he claims, the technology is there. …
… When he used ChatGPT to help with coding, the chatbot once again used the phrase jiezhu in its responses, completely unprompted. …
… He suspects that’s because the power users of ChatGPT are not typical Walmart customers. But the retailer’s price, selection, and broad geographic footprint mean that its products are showing up in many ChatGPT responses. …
… OpenAI’s lawyer, William Savitt, then asked whether OpenAI’s technology had been used in any way to develop xAI. Savitt: Has OpenAI technology been used in any way to develop xAI? …
… The company is rolling out “age prediction” technology, meaning that when a user is identified as being below 18 years of age, “they will automatically be directed to a ChatGPT experience with age-appropriate policies.” The company also recently introduced parental controls, which, among other thin… …
… Recently, I dug out that old test and gave it to the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. …
… The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX which now owns a rival AI lab, xAI to go public. …