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OpenAI’s ChatGPT has reached a clear inflection point on U.S. college and university campuses: institutions are buying bulk access, students are using the service by the millions, and for the first time in the generative-AI era a single third‑party assistant appears to have outpaced rivals in...

Morningstar and PitchBook have taken a decisive step into the agentic AI era by launching Model Context Protocol (MCP)–based apps inside ChatGPT, enabling licensed users to query proprietary public- and private-market data and analyst research through natural-language prompts without leaving the...

OpenAI’s decision to pause in-chat promotional suggestions inside ChatGPT is a blunt reaffirmation that monetizing conversational AI is harder than building it — and that user trust can evaporate faster than a rollout plan can be written. Background In early December, users noticed a puzzling...

OpenAI and Instacart have taken a big step toward turning ChatGPT from a recipe and planning tool into a full shopping assistant: users can now compile grocery lists, pick items from local stores, choose delivery or pickup options, set tips, and pay directly inside ChatGPT thanks to an Instacart...

OpenAI’s internal alert is more than a memo — it’s a strategic reset: Sam Altman has reportedly declared a “code red” that pauses peripheral projects and redirects engineering firepower back to ChatGPT as Google’s Gemini 3 and other rivals close the gap in the generative-AI battlefield. The...

The Dutch public is now far more familiar with generative AI assistants than a year ago, with ChatGPT remaining the top-known name while Google’s Gemini shows the fastest awareness growth — a pattern Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer AI Monitor (Q4 2025) captures in a detailed, demographic-fractured...

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...

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. Overview 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...

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. Background /...

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...