Saves to local browser storage. Followed topics appear on the homepage and refresh on each visit.
More context
Recent coverage focuses on ChatGPT expanding into Apple’s Messages ecosystem on Mac, plus a separate wave of reporting about ChatGPT being down and blocking logins/signups. There’s also attention on youth-focused access (ChatGPT for Teens) and broader AI authorship/usage controversies.
Key TakeawayChatGPT’s Mac experience is getting Apple Messages integration, but users are also encountering an outage that prevents logins and new account creation.
Tracking: ChatGPT update adds Apple Messages integration on Mac / PSA: ChatGPT outage is blocking users from logging in or creating new accounts [U: Fixed]
Tracking: ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in / A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
Common questions on ChatGPT, surfaced from across the indexed web.
How does OpenAI intend the speaker’s software to compare to ChatGPT’s existing voice mode on mobile?
OpenAI says the speaker will work similarly to ChatGPT’s voice mode on mobile but use more advanced models tuned for humanlike interactivity. The software is intended to become more personalized and proactive over time, offering a richer, more interactive experience than the existing mobile voice mode. Answered
Measuring accuracy in LLMs can be tricky, as there's no straight answer. The specific model you're using and the prompt you feed into it play an important role in the quality of the output.
When it comes to flagship models — Claude Fable 5 (Max) and GPT 5.6 Sol (Max) — Claude is marginally more accurate according to the AA-Omniscience Accuracy benchmark. The scores stand at 61 percent and 59 percent, respectively. Because the difference is so marginal, you'll rarely notice it in day-to-day usage.
But, unless you're tokenmaxxing, you'll be using mid-tier models for most tasks. On Claude, this i
Ascannio/Shutterstock There's a difference in what people use Claude and ChatGPT for. According to the Anthropic Economic Index report from March 2026, 42 percent of Claude conversations revolved around personal usage and 45 percent were related to work (the remainder was coursework). A similar report by OpenAI states that 70 percent of ChatGPT usage is non-work-related.
Claude Cowork, which came out in January 2026, can perform knowledge-based tasks on your behalf: I mostly use it to organize my files. You can also create instruction bundles called skills that can be invoked mid-conversation
ChatGPT's new models score better than previous ones on almost all AA-Omniscience benchmarks, yet the overall experience of using the app seems to be getting worse. If you feel this way, you're not wrong, because there are areas where the previous models performed better than the latest ones.
One such area is hallucinations: The same AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate benchmark I mentioned earlier states that GPT-4o has a hallucination rate of 38 percent compared to GPT-5.6 Sol's 89 percent. OpenAI also introduced safeguards to align with the industry's maturation. Tone shifts, for example, may
TechCrunch
9to5mac.com
