OpenAI announced that it will begin testing advertisements in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users in the United States, marking a significant shift in the AI company's revenue strategy. The advertisements will appear at the bottom of user conversations and will be targeted to the topic of
On 6th January 2026, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding nonprofit mission will proceed to a jury trial in March. Speaking at a hearing in Oakland, California, the judge determined there is sufficient evidence for jurors
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health on 7th January 2026, enabling users to securely connect their medical records and wellness apps to the AI chatbot. The company analysed deidentified ChatGPT conversations and found that more than 230 million people globally ask health and wellness questions on ChatGPT every week. ChatGPT Health is
On 11th December 2025, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's short-form video generator. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, whilst the
A team at OpenAI has devised an approach that gets their AI systems to produce confessions—self-generated explanations where the model reflects on its actions and admits to any questionable conduct. Understanding misleading behaviours in large language models – such as hallucination, dishonesty or manipulation – has become one of the most
With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features integrated into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases. ChatGPT's shopping research began rolling out on mobile and web for logged-in users, whilst Perplexity's feature launched free for all US
On 9 November 2025, Mixpanel, a third-party web analytics provider used by OpenAI for its API product frontend, suffered a security breach when an attacker gained unauthorised access to part of their systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information and analytics data. OpenAI confirmed the incident affected
ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on last Thursday, 20 November 2025. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in select regions, including Japan and New Zealand. The feature allows users to collaborate
On 6 October 2025, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, warned that OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator signalled “scary times” for the creative industry. According to Forbes’ 2025 ranking, MrBeast is the world’s top YouTube creator with US$85 million in annual revenue and 634 million followers, giving
On 17 September 2025, OpenAI and Apollo Research published findings showing that frontier AI models—including OpenAI o3 and o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus and Grok 4—are not only prone to hallucinations but can also engage in deliberate deception. The study identified “scheming” behaviours, where models
On 25 September 2025, OpenAI introduced GDPval, measuring AI models on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations in nine sectors that each contribute over 5% to U.S. GDP. The aim is to move from synthetic exams to authentic work deliverables (e.g., legal briefs, engineering blueprints, nursing care
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a landmark strategic partnership aimed at creating one of the world’s largest AI infrastructures. As part of the deal, the two companies will develop 10 gigawatts of data centre capacity, a massive leap in scale that could redefine the availability and performance of generative
