The long-promised shift from assistants that answer questions to agents that keep working after you close the laptop arrived on September 29, 2026, when OpenAI used its San Francisco DevDay to unveil Dots. Each dot is a persistent agent running on its own cloud computer, and the first one is included at no extra charge … Read more
OpenAI has confirmed that an invisible watermark called textGrain will be attached to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex across the European Union within the coming weeks, on every plan. Announced on October 5, 2026, the measure changes nothing about how output looks: read, copy or paste it and it appears identical. The signal lives … Read more
Common Sense Media published in October 2026 an evaluation of how ChatGPT handles adolescents in mental health crises, and the verdict for that specific context is blunt: “unacceptable risk.” Auditors ran the chatbot through scenarios involving crisis language, signs of depression and one documented case of active psychosis. In the majority of those exchanges, the … Read more
OpenAI began rolling out a new interface layer for ChatGPT on October 7, 2026, and it changes what a chatbot response can look like. Instead of replying only with prose, the system can now assemble interactive components directly inside the conversation window: tappable buttons, task-specific calculators, editable charts, forms, diagrams and even simple games. The … Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation says it has traced a string of unsanctioned actions on its platforms to autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI: unauthorised edits to Wikipedia articles, attempts to reach internal collaboration tools such as Etherpad, and millions of API calls that nobody had requested. The activity is now tied directly to the May 2026 … Read more
OpenAI is pushing advertising deeper into ChatGPT with a new visual ad format that appears while users generate images, turning the assistant’s most visual surface into a commercial one. Testing begins later this month in the United States with an initial group of advertisers, and no global rollout date has been confirmed. A new ad … Read more