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Microsoft 365's 18-hour outage knocked out Claude's and ChatGPT's connectors while the models themselves stayed up News
Microsoft's outage beginning November 12 hit Exchange, Teams, SharePoint and Copilot for at least 18 hours, and Claude's Microsoft 365 connector failed for about five hours in Anthropic's feed with no resolution entry.
OpenAI documents card and device restrictions for paid ChatGPT accounts News
OpenAI’s help page describes payment-card and device restrictions for personal paid ChatGPT accounts, with no public numeric threshold and workspace exceptions to the device count.
OpenAI says ChatGPT and Codex will share a usage allowance starting in December News
OpenAI will pool ChatGPT and Codex usage for Plus, Pro and Business in December, excluding Instant chat but leaving token budgets unspecified.
ChatGPT locked chats hide conversations, but PIN reset deletes them News
OpenAI is rolling out PIN-protected locked chats, with permanent deletion of protected content when a forgotten PIN is reset.
A ChatGPT memory audit found sensitive context, not proof of a profile on every user News
An ACM study found psychological categories in 52% of 2,050 donated ChatGPT memory entries, with limits that prevent claims about every user or the current system.
ChatGPT ads use conversation context and advertiser customer-list matching News
OpenAI’s advertising documentation confirms contextual ad selection and customer-list matching, with at least 25,000 matched users required for audience inclusion or bid adjustments.
GPT-6 brings interactive answers and progressive responses to ChatGPT News
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 and Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, using native components and a streaming compiler to turn some answers into interactive tools.
OpenAI begins testing Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT ads News
OpenAI is testing a clearly labeled format in which users can choose to chat with a business-sponsored agent, with public materials confirming website handoff but not in-chat checkout, booking or lead capture.
OpenAI's ad policy now lets it refuse ads that threaten its 'competitive position', after Adobe's image-tool ads were cut from ChatGPT News
OpenAI updated its advertising policy on 10 September 2026 to reserve the right to decline ads that conflict with its 'business interests, or competitive position', a day after The Information reported that ChatGPT had stopped accepting ads for rival AI image and audio tools, including Adobe's.
OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.5 with a drawing tool News
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, cutting image generation latency by up to half against the previous version and adding Sketch, which lets users draw directly in ChatGPT as a reference for a generated image.
OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT. The next day, a lawsuit asked a court to pause it. News
OpenAI began rolling out Health in ChatGPT on July 23; a complaint filed by a pastor who suffered a pulmonary embolism asks a court to halt consumer health AI products pending independent safety audits - though the advice he alleges came from GPT-4o in 2025.
ChatGPT ads are live, and OpenAI has quietly built a full ad stack behind them News
OpenAI is running labeled sponsored cards below ChatGPT answers for free users in a US beta, and its own developer docs reveal a conventional ad-tech layer underneath, with a tracking pixel and a conversions API that bridge each ad click to a downstream purchase, even though the model's answers stay separate from advertisers.
A Brown professor moved a final in person, and the near-perfect scores collapsed News
A Brown University economics professor who suspected AI cheating switched his take-home final to an in-person exam, and average scores fell by roughly half — a stark data point in the growing fight over what take-home 'mastery' now measures.
Samsung Banned ChatGPT in 2023. Now It's Giving It to 125,000 Workers. News
After barring ChatGPT over a data leak three years ago, Samsung has reversed course and rolled OpenAI's enterprise tools out across its workforce -- a vivid sign that the corporate holdouts are capitulating.
ChatGPT integration for Apple Intelligence Tool
Apple documents an opt-in ChatGPT extension for Siri, Writing Tools, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence and Shortcuts, with confirmation before files and photos are sent.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 (with Sketch) Tool
OpenAI's updated image model with up to 50% lower generation latency, better preservation of subjects from reference photos, and Sketch, a tool for drawing directly in ChatGPT as a reference. Available to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex users.