With new tools and greater autonomy, OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot is more capable, and potentially more dangerous, than ever.

A tiny fraction of users ever touch the ‘thinky’ models built for better answers. Sam Altman’s slip reveals why GPT-5’s big debut landed with a thud.

"You can learn from everywhere, but you have to do it from scratch," ChatGPT's Nick Turley said. "That trait tends to make someone effective at OpenAI."

But the NYT and other news organizations rejected the compromise, OpenAI said in a filing yesterday. Instead, news plaintiffs have made what OpenAI said was an "extraordinary request that OpenAI produce the individual log files of 120 million ChatGPT consumer conversations."

When OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT, people were quick to protest its colder responses. Acknowledging the emotional attachment with chatbots, the company quickly backtracked.

OpenAI says it has tweaked ChatGPT to ensure the model responds appropriately when a user shows distress.

California State University is rolling out ChatGPT Edu to its 23 campuses, a $17 million move hailed as an equity win but criticized amid budget cuts and faculty concerns.