Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have both pushed generative AI into everyday workflows, but they take markedly different approaches to features, ecosystem integration, pricing, and privacy — and those differences matter when deciding which assistant to use for research, creative work...
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Anthropic’s abrupt switch to an opt‑out model for training Claude on consumer conversations has forced a long‑overdue reckoning: if you want to keep your chats from being recycled into the next generation of chatbots, you must actively say so — and the same is true for ChatGPT and Google’s...
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Jagran Josh’s roundup that purports to name “the most-used AI chatbots in 2025” landed in inboxes and social feeds with a punchy list—ChatGPT at the top with a jaw‑dropping 46.59 billion “users,” followed by a clutch of U.S. and China‑based rivals—but a closer look shows the headline numbers...
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OpenAI’s plan to add parental oversight features to ChatGPT is the company’s most far‑reaching safety response yet to concerns about young people using conversational AI as an emotional crutch — a shift that pairs technical changes (stronger content filters, crisis detection and one‑click...
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Microsoft’s push to fold OpenAI’s latest models into Windows and Office has hardened an uncomfortable choice for many users: do you pick the deeply integrated productivity assistant (Microsoft Copilot) that lives inside Word, Excel, Outlook and the Windows taskbar, or the more general-purpose...
Washington State University Tri‑Cities is putting a pragmatic foot forward in the region’s AI conversation by offering a hands‑on workshop—“Generative AI Essentials: Workplace Applications and Ethical Use”—that promises to teach local professionals how to use tools such as Microsoft Copilot and...
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Android phones quietly run a constellation of AI services every day — from autocomplete and face unlock to route planning — and in 2025 a small set of free Android apps now make that intelligence easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone. This feature distills a TechCabal roundup into a...
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ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent...
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Most Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are already using generative AI tools — but more often than not they’re doing so without a coherent plan, leaving businesses exposed to security, cost, and strategic risks while missing opportunities to drive growth and competitive advantage...
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Chatbots have moved from novelty to utility, and in 2025 a crowded field of capable, often free, AI assistants stands ready to handle everything from drafting emails and analyzing spreadsheets to generating images and supporting mental well‑being. The most practical choices depend on what you...
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OpenAI’s name has been at the center of another wave of rumors: this time that the company is preparing a standalone search application built on ChatGPT and could debut it as early as May 5. The claim—pushed by regional outlets and forum chatter—points to a newly visible subdomain...
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OpenAI’s rollout of GPT‑5 has reshaped ChatGPT’s product landscape in ways that were predictable on paper but messy in practice: a unified, faster reasoning engine meant to simplify model choice accidentally erased a model many users loved, prompting an outcry that forced OpenAI to partially...
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch promised a single, smarter, faster AI to replace the patchwork of GPT-4 variants — and instead it produced one of the most visible user revolts in recent AI product history, forcing a rapid rollback, feature tweaks, and an urgent debate about what people actually want from...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now reach into your Gmail inbox, read your Google Calendar, and look up people in Google Contacts — all from inside a single chat — marking a clear escalation in the product’s push from a conversational assistant toward a full-fledged, context-aware workspace tool. The...
OpenAI’s decision to run ChatGPT and its API on Google Cloud — alongside Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave, and Oracle — marks a decisive shift from single-provider reliance to a multi-cloud infrastructure designed to relieve crushing compute demand, reduce vendor risk, and squeeze performance and cost...
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Zenity Labs’ Black Hat presentation unveiled a dramatic new class of threats to enterprise AI: “zero‑click” hijacking techniques that can silently compromise widely used agents and assistants — from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Einstein, and Google Gemini — allowing attackers to...
Elon Musk’s latest salvo at the tech establishment landed on social feeds and in headlines within hours: xAI will sue Apple, he said, accusing the iPhone maker of manipulating App Store rankings and editorial features to favor OpenAI’s ChatGPT — an action Musk framed as an “unequivocal antitrust...
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Microsoft has quietly turned the screws on what “free” AI can do on your PC: Copilot for Windows now exposes OpenAI’s GPT‑5 through a new Smart mode — and early tests suggest Microsoft’s free Copilot experience gives users more liberal access to GPT‑5’s “Thinking” (reasoning) path than ChatGPT’s...
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If you’ve been hunting for a “ChatGPT‑5 download for Windows 11 or Windows 10,” here’s the reality: GPT‑5 is now officially live in ChatGPT, and there is an official ChatGPT app for Windows—available through the Microsoft Store and OpenAI’s own download page—but GPT‑5 itself still runs in the...
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For Windows users trying to “download ChatGPT‑5,” the headline news is simple: GPT‑5 is now the default model in ChatGPT, accessible on Windows via the official desktop app, the web, or a Progressive Web App—there’s no “GPT‑5.exe” to install. And while older guides conflated GPT‑5 with GPT‑4o...
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