ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant developed by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and popularised large language models for mainstream use.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) warned that people using AI chatbots for investment help may lack regulatory protection, as a survey found 56% of 18-40-year-old investors trust AI tools and 4…
Only 2.8% of the 1,851 sources cited by Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity in Shero Commerce's analysis of purchasing queries across 60 product categories were brand-owned pages, with third-party…
Google's Gemini app now includes three separately branded features—chat, Spark, and Daily Brief—which the company says users shouldn't have to guess between, yet the branding undercuts that promise. T…
Chronograph, founded in 2016 by Charlie Tafoya and Michael Bridge, connected clients' private-capital portfolio data to Perplexity Computer on August 26, adding a third major AI distribution channel a…
OpenAI released a report showing that ChatGPT hosts about 70 million weekly conversations focused on learning, with U.S. classwork-related prompts peaking at over 460 million messages per week during …
OpenAI has identified and banned ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia that were used to covertly push Kremlin talking points and create a fake research community, including a fake Israel-based think tank…
A developer spent two days adding a source-location axis to Vodou's memory store, enabling it to track where each memory came from via source_url, source_host, and source_ref columns, plus a four-tier…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman projects the company will achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI) by December 31, 2026, with Chief Research Officer Mark Chen stating OpenAI is 80% of the way there. The fo…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to help write his Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing US Treasury chief Scott Bessent, a move that has split financia…
The AI industry is shifting focus from model capabilities to the 'harness'—the interface and scaffolding around AI subscriptions, including projects, memory, connectors, and skills. OpenAI recently ad…
Lovable, an AI app builder valued at $13.3 billion, is rolling out Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities to let users expose app functions as agent-callable endpoints, aiming to make web apps nati…
OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on Mac lets the AI search years of iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations, summarize group chats, draft replies, and send messages, but security experts wa…
Scalable Capital, a Munich-based digital investment platform with more than €60 billion in client assets and over 1 million customers, has become the first bank in Europe to open its platform to major…
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform formerly known as GPT Engineer, is pivoting to enable agents to use apps directly, with CTO Fabian Hedin describing a future where users interact with a s…
German software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term 'meat proxy' in an Aug. 3 blog post to describe coworkers who pass off AI chatbot responses as their own without understanding them, sparking over…
PCMag's 2026 review names ChatGPT the best AI chatbot overall, citing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model, pricing from $8 to $200 per month, and features like deep research and image generation. Google Gemini is …
A developer spent months building the Limn Engine, a game engine that runs at 60 FPS on low-end hardware, but discovered a subtle bug where click events failed when the camera moved. The bug was cause…
Claude is preferred by 10.6% of Gen Z adults who use AI, compared to 1.4% of Baby Boomers+, a 7.6-to-1 gap that YouGov's newest ranking identifies as the steepest generational split of any major AI br…
Los Gatos High School teacher David Homa now requires students in his honors economics and social entrepreneurship classes to handwrite notes or use one of five typewriters funded by the New Millenniu…
Prompt Builder, a free and open prompt library, launched with copy-ready, modular prompt templates featuring dynamic variables for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other major AI models. The library offer…