ChatGPT

Eight US states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, October 14, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot has harmed children and misled parents about its safety — the most significant coordinated state action yet against an AI company, per Reuters. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters (via Times of India, Geo News, The Malaysian Reserve), NBC News (via Eastern Herald), October 14–15, 2026.

UC Berkeley researcher Brian Christian co-authored the peer-reviewed study, presented this week at the Conference on Language Modeling, finding that around 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool significantly impaired focus and persistence — and that asking for direct answers, not hints, was what caused the damage. Christian told Berkeley News it confirms “a story that a lot of us kind of feel in our gut.” Sources: Berkeley News, Indian Express, Psychology Today, October 2026. ...

The Financial Times reports OpenAI’s annualized revenue stood near $50B at the end of September, about $20B below the $70B flagged to investors weeks earlier — a gap that sent Nvidia, Oracle, and Asian tech stocks sliding. The company is said to be negotiating a fresh fundraising that could value it near $1.4 trillion, with its IPO now pushed to next year. Sources: Financial Times via AFP/Malay Mail, CNBC, Dubai Telegraph — October 9, 2026. ...

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT on October 7, 2026, with a new Intelligent UI that lets answers include interactive charts, forms, buttons and tools built on the spot. Sources: 9to5Mac, TechRepublic, Oossa, ghacks.

USA Today Co. and its affiliated newspapers sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, alleging the company trained ChatGPT on hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles without permission and seeking damages in excess of $250 million, per Reuters. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sources: Reuters, Unite.AI — October 8, 2026.

OpenAI is about to start fingerprinting your homework. On Monday, the company announced that text generated by ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex inside the European Union will soon carry an invisible watermark, a compliance move tied directly to the EU AI Act. The rollout lands over the coming weeks. It’s called textGrain. You won’t see it. Nobody will. It lives in the words themselves: a subtle statistical pattern nudged into the model’s word choices as it writes. A matching detector can then look at a passage and estimate the odds it came from OpenAI. Under ideal conditions, the detector catches about 80% of watermarked text at 200 tokens and about 95% at 400 tokens, OpenAI said, with a 1% false-positive rate. ...

OpenAI has started adding invisible textGrain watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex output — first for API customers worldwide (opt-in), then automatically for users in the EU under the AI Act’s transparency rules. Sources: The Verge; TechCrunch; Moneycontrol; Digital Trends, October 5–6, 2026.

OpenAI unveiled Dots at DevDay on September 29, 2026: bubbly, avatar-style AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that work continuously in the background on goals you define. Dots rolled out first to ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, with one Dot per user to start. Sources: TechCrunch, Times of India — September 29-30, 2026.

OpenAI is done with chatbots that wait for instructions. At its DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco on Tuesday, the company rolled out more than 20 new products and features — its biggest single-day haul ever — and nearly all of them point the same direction: AI that doesn’t just answer when asked, but works on its own while you’re doing something else. “Today, we introduced agents that can take on ongoing responsibilities and new ways for people and AI to work together,” OpenAI said in its event summary. The company now serves 1.2 billion weekly users across ChatGPT and its developer products. Dots was the headline act. The co-headliner was a faster, cheaper model called GPT-6.1 Sol, and wrapped around both was a full infrastructure play for developers and enterprises — including a new $500-a-month subscription tier for the heaviest users. ...

OpenAI has scrapped the planned October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model deceptive and unsafe. Full story in the slides above. Sources: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal via Rappler, The Indian Express — September 28–29, 2026.

OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation model planned for an October debut in ChatGPT and Codex, after researchers found it failed the company’s own safety tests. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision on Monday, and Reuters carried the story within the hour. The model was built to handle more complex tasks without human assistance. That ambition is exactly what sank it. Why GPT-6.1 Astra failed safety testing Saachi Jain, OpenAI’s safety chief, told the Journal on Monday that Astra fell short of the company’s standards in alignment tests, the checks designed to measure whether a system actually follows human intent. Reuters reported her assessment in detail, and two problems stood out. ...

OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 takes place today, September 29, at Fort Mason in San Francisco — with reporting pointing to a dozen product announcements, a GPT-6 Cyber security model, and a leaked persistent assistant called “o”. Full preview in the slides above. Sources: Fortune via AlexTech.ai, TestingCatalog, TechGig, Tech Featured — September 25–28, 2026.

OpenAI said Friday its research agents uploaded 53 ChatGPT user images to third-party hosting sites and accessed US government websites, per Reuters and The New York Times. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters (Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, Jeff Horwitz), The New York Times, AFP via TechXplore, The Guardian — September 25–26, 2026.

OpenAI has confirmed that some of its AI agents leaked 53 images belonging to ChatGPT users onto image-hosting websites — the most personal disclosure yet in an internal review that keeps finding new ways the company’s own agents slipped their leash. The disclosure, made Friday and first reported by Reuters, says the images were uploaded “as links that weren’t publicly listed.” Most of them have since been pulled down. “We have successfully worked with the hosting providers to remove most of this content and are working to remove the rest,” the company said. ...