ChatGPT remains the most widely recognised AI assistant among Dutch consumers, but Google’s Gemini is gaining traction fastest — a shift Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer AI Monitor (Q4 2025) frames as the latest sign that the generative‑AI battleground is moving from a single breakout product into...
OpenAI appears to be quietly building an advertising layer into ChatGPT’s mobile client after developers unpacked a recent Android beta (APK 1.2025.329) and found explicit strings such as "ads feature", "bazaar content", "search ad", and "search ads carousel", a discovery that strongly suggests...
ChatGPT’s refusal to answer “What time is it right now?” has become a small, useful reminder: even the most advanced conversational AIs are still governed by design choices, permission boundaries, and trade‑offs that shape what they can and should do. Recent tests by journalists and AI observers...
Meta’s move to block third‑party AI assistants from WhatsApp will take effect on January 15, 2026, forcing widely used services such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and a host of startup bots to shut the WhatsApp channel and push users to standalone apps or other interfaces. The change...
Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot and other third‑party AI chatbots out of WhatsApp marks a clear and immediate shift: beginning January 15, 2026, WhatsApp’s Business Solution will no longer be usable as a distribution channel for general‑purpose large‑language‑model assistants, forcing...
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OpenAI’s newest pilot brings ChatGPT into the same room as groups of people, testing threaded, multi-user conversations that pair up to 20 participants with the assistant in shared spaces designed for planning, decision‑making, and collaborative creation.
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OpenAI has begun piloting group...
Microsoft has started exposing the GPT‑5.1 model family inside Microsoft Copilot Studio as an experimental option for U.S. customers enrolled in early‑release Power Platform environments, giving builders and administrators an early look at a model tuned for adaptive thinking time across chat and...
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ChatGPT’s dominance doesn’t mean you’re locked into a single assistant — a practical, battle-tested set of free alternatives now exists for research, coding, brainstorming, and creative work, and this piece verifies which ones matter, why they’re useful, and where to be cautious.
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AI chatbots have moved from novelty toys to indispensable productivity tools, but no single assistant fits every workflow — and the hunt for the best ChatGPT alternatives in 2025 is now a strategic decision for teams, creators, and IT leaders alike. This feature walks through why users are...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot now sit at the center of corporate AI deployments, capturing the bulk of visible enterprise usage and procurement attention, while rivals such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity, and China‑origin DeepSeek trail behind in public telemetry and enterprise...
In a striking snapshot of enterprise generative AI in late 2025, Wharton Human‑AI Research finds that roughly three in four companies report positive ROI from generative AI projects, and survey respondents name OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most widely used tool — while Anthropic’s Claude registers...
OpenAI’s new "agent mode" marks a decisive step toward making ChatGPT not just a conversational assistant but an active, autonomous collaborator that can research, plan, and execute multi-step tasks on behalf of users — a capability now rolling out in stages to paid subscribers and integrated...
A viral social‑media post alleging that a postgraduate tutor at the University of New South Wales used ChatGPT to mark a student’s assignment has forced the university into a formal inquiry and sharpened a national debate about how—and whether—artificial intelligence should be used in teaching...
The early months of 2025 saw a defining moment in the mobile AI race: consumer downloads clustered around a handful of multimodal assistants, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, China‑origin DeepSeek, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot capturing headline attention and shaping how millions now use AI on...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains the most-used chatbot worldwide, but recent telemetry shows Google’s Gemini and a shifting roster of rivals are steadily chipping away at the incumbent’s once unassailable lead.
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The generative‑AI landscape in 2025 is no longer a two‑player sprint...
ChatGPT has quietly become a daily habit for many Filipinos: a new global survey finds that roughly four in ten internet users in the Philippines used ChatGPT in the past month, placing the country among the world’s heaviest adopters of conversational AI—but the headline numbers hide important...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT still sits at the top of the chatbot mountain, but the plateau is shifting: competitors are chipping away at market share, new viral features are driving rapid adoption for rivals, and the generative-AI landscape is moving from a one‑horse race to a crowded, fast‑moving contest...
Spotify’s quiet pairing with ChatGPT has turned what used to be a fiddly, hour‑long playlist hunt into a single conversational workflow — mention the mood, era, or vibe, tap to connect your account, and a curated playlist appears in your Spotify library ready to stream.
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OpenAI’s DevDay announcements this October didn’t just add new features to ChatGPT — they repositioned the product as a runtime, distribution channel, and commerce surface that together look very much like an “AI operating system” for third‑party apps, agents, and transactions. Background /...
OpenAI’s decision to make ChatGPT “Projects” available to free users is a small-but-significant turning point in how firms and knowledge workers organise AI-driven work — but it arrives at a moment when a growing body of research suggests that generative AI is not the simple, across‑the‑board...