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In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a press event on Monday. He said the company defines a search as any time a user inputs a query that results in a web search, as opposed to tasks like defining a term or a simple how-to explanation. (Fry did not specify the source of the Google search volume number.) Having one-fifth as many searches as ...

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry says ChatGPT has hit 1.2B WAUs, adding 200M over the past two months, and its search volume is ~20% of Google's — ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry on ChatGPT's growth, the cost of personal agents, and plans to bring Chat and Work together.

My company is pretty paranoid about leaking IP to the frontier labs through prompts, so we've all been diligent about disabling data sharing in Codex/Claude Code/etc. But yesterday my coworkers and I noticed that the setting had been silently reenabled in Codex. None of us knowingly opted back in. You can check your settings here: https://chatgpt.com/settings/data-controls. Look for "Improve the model for everyone". Curious if this is an isolated issue or something more widespread. EDIT: looks like this has been noted before https://news....

Discover how ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers accelerate CAD, PCB design, simulation, and other workflows across the physical world.

Discover how Heimstaden uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to transform property management, cut costs, and empower employees across Europe.

can now show your deployments as an interactive card inside ChatGPT and other chat clients that support .Vercel MCPMCP Apps The card shows live deployment status, build logs, and source and commit details, with a Visit button once the deployment URL is ready. You can send logs into the chat to debug with the model, or open the fullscreen view to read them beneath the card. For repositories linked to multiple projects, a project list lets you switch between them. The card is Vercel MCP's first MCP App, built on the MCP Apps extension. Clients without app support receive the deployment state, p...

OpenAI merges ChatGPT Chat and Work tabs on desktop in phased rollout; Codex remains separate product.

OpenAI consolidates ChatGPT Chat and Work tabs into unified rate-limit pool affecting API usage.

OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro usage limits and consolidates Work features into Chat, merging allowances across ChatGPT and Codex.

Copilot and ChatGPT cite AI-generated voter information sites with high error rates; Copilot relied on Ballot Brief in 75% of tests.

Parameter Labs discovers sandbox escape vulnerability in ChatGPT's HTML artifact previews via MathLive library, enabling account takeover.

OpenAI consolidates ChatGPT and Codex API usage limits into unified system.

OpenAI paid $5K bounty for XSS vulnerability in ChatGPT share links allowing arbitrary code execution.

Security researchers demonstrate account takeover vulnerability in ChatGPT exposing risks to user credentials and data access.

OpenAI restricts ChatGPT's weapons-related responses to minors via age-gated safety controls, including ostensibly benign queries.

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed device policy, a named AWS profile, and network restrictions, so a security team can validate it before broader use.

OpenAI expands ChatGPT violence prevention safeguards and publishes public safety report with teen protections.

OpenAI reverses planned 50% usage limit cuts for ChatGPT Pro $100–$500 tiers and Business Premium after user backlash.

OpenAI matches Anthropic's API credit benefit for ChatGPT Pro subscribers ($100–$500/month), offering $5–$50/month in API credits.

Opinion comparing connectionist AI energy demands to neuromorphic and local learning approaches as efficiency alternatives.

Credit Saison reports 954% ROI from ChatGPT Enterprise pilot, citing cost savings and productivity gains.

Evernote runs ChatGPT Ads campaign to convert free trials to paid subscriptions using OpenAI's ad platform.

Legora builds agentic OS for legal workflows using OpenAI models and ChatGPT to automate contract analysis and document workflows.

OpenAI and Oracle expand partnership to integrate Oracle business apps and AI agents into ChatGPT, enabling enterprise workflow automation.

ChatGPT hallucinates false advice directing users to 404 Media for tech support, exposing gaps in LLM reliability and platform accountability.

OpenAI releases Signals dataset tracking ChatGPT usage across 165 work activities in ~100 countries, showing temporal adoption patterns.

OpenAI scaled Habitat storage system with multi-tenancy and Azure Cosmos DB to achieve 12× read speedup for 1B+ ChatGPT users.

The ride share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work, but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

Uber deploys ChatGPT Work across 30,000+ employees for research, data analysis, and workflow automation.

Anthropic donates Agent Skills open standard to Agentic AI Foundation; adopted by 70+ platforms including ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot.