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Sat, Oct 17
ChatGPT's Chrome extension gains computer use, with Work mode filling forms and organizing tabs
AI assistants are competing for the browser differently now: instead of asking users to move, they move into the browser users already have.
GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT runs multiple agents in parallel as Codex raises effective usage
As agents start to work like teams, the bottleneck shifts from model capability to how much compute each user gets.
Thu, Oct 8
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 and Intelligent UI to all ChatGPT users, letting answers include charts, buttons and small tools
Once interfaces can be generated on the spot for each question, the line between an app and an answer blurs, and ChatGPT is competing not just to be where people ask but to be the screen where they finish the task.
OpenAI previews a College Planner for high school students as Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk" the same day
Building a separate version for minors amounts to a public promise that the safeguards will work, and every miss from here on will be measured against that promise.
Tue, Oct 6
SemiAnalysis testing: at the same subscription price, Claude Opus 5.5 offers about five times the usage of GPT-6.1 Sol
Subscriptions all cost $20 and $200, so the real price war is fought over allowances nobody can see, and whoever gives more is trading gross margin for users.
Codex delivers on day one of its 28-day pledge: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol go from 30 to 50 tokens per second for subscribers
Delivering speed first while allowances are being questioned answers a question only heavy users calculate with a metric everyone can feel.
OpenAI will test visual ads during image generation in ChatGPT this month, starting with free users in the US
The chatbot has ended up on the same road as the search engine: gather users with a free product, then sell their attention to advertisers.
Mon, Oct 5
GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT and Codex on October 14, less than six months after launch
A well-liked model is withdrawn in under six months, so what a subscription buys is "the current latest," not a version you can rely on for long.
OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a place to discover and use software, but has no revenue-sharing plan for developers yet
OpenAI has taken the app store's discovery function first and left payment for later, and the commission rate will only come up once developers cannot do without the entry point.
Anthropic moves into healthcare twice in quick succession: stronger biology in Opus 5.5 and free clinical AI for doctors in about 100 countries
In a field with as much liability as medicine, a model company would sooner be the engine inside someone else's product, and the stronger its biology gets, the more it needs a clear tiering scheme to show it is under control.
Wed, Sep 16
OpenAI's reported Project Lily uses human chat review, anonymization may miss personal information
Conversation improvement still relies on human labor; anonymization, stopping future training use and deleting historical data are distinct steps that cannot replace one another.
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