The preconfigured AI assistant — the small, purpose-built bot you assemble inside ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude so you never have to paste the same instructions twice — is heading into its most disruptive stretch yet. Two of the three dominant formats are being taken apart and rebuilt under new names, while the third is quietly … Read more
OpenAI has begun rolling out locked chats in ChatGPT, a feature that hides individual conversations behind a four-digit account PIN so they disappear from the main history, from pinned chats and from ordinary search. The release notes are dated October 20, and the accompanying help-centre article is strikingly candid about what the lock does — … Read more
TechNews DevTop — Reasoning models are now a default setting across major AI platforms, but the label hides a commercial trade-off. Before answering, these systems generate internal reasoning tokens: an invisible draft that helps with code debugging, planning, math and long-document analysis. That draft is billed, occupies context and adds latency. The practical question is … Read more
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are converging on an unglamorous prompting playbook: state the job clearly, supply missing context, show the pattern you want, define the output and split complicated work. For users who have watched a chatbot nail one request and fumble the next, that agreement matters more than another list of “100 prompts that … Read more
Pasting a rental contract, electricity bill or lab report into a chatbot is tempting: it decodes the jargon in seconds. The catch is everything that travels with the document. Spain’s Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) captured the risk in its January 2026 decalogue: “Be careful what you entrust to it.” Strip identifiers first: … Read more
A chatbot can confidently cite a 2021 The Lancet study, article 14 of a law, or a line from Einstein. The citation may be flawless in form and entirely invented. For users of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot, fabricated sources can slip into a court filing, journal submission, or business report. Courts and journals face … Read more
Eight US states have opened a coordinated legal front against OpenAI, each filing its own lawsuit accusing the company of selling ChatGPT as a safe product while designing a chatbot that endangers minors and vulnerable adults. The complaints from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana read mostly as consumer-protection actions — … Read more
OpenAI’s advertising system inside ChatGPT is not a simple keyword auction. A report published on 15 October, built on two test ad campaigns bought inside the platform, shows that sponsored placements can be matched to accounts using uploaded email addresses, phone numbers or Android advertising IDs — and that outside Europe the system can also … Read more
OpenAI has quietly turned its ChatGPT extension for Chrome into something much closer to an autonomous assistant. In an update announced on October 15, 2026, the add-on gained the ability to read every tab a user has open and to act inside those pages — filling out forms, sending messages, downloading files and grouping a … Read more
A proposed nationwide class action filed in California federal court accuses OpenAI of training its models on children’s private ChatGPT conversations without valid parental consent. The remedy it seeks is barely conventional: a slice of the company itself, or its cash equivalent. The 81-page complaint was lodged on October 13, 2026 in the U.S. District … Read more