Photograph a crumpled receipt and ask a chatbot what it contains: reading and condensing documents is core work for these tools. Photograph a chessboard and ask where the pieces stand: OpenAI’s documentation picks that exact example when it concedes its models handle precise spatial location badly. A multimodal model, plainly, takes in more than text … Read more
Microsoft has shipped security updates on an unscheduled basis for .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10 and the third release candidate of .NET 11. The driver is CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow rooted in how the framework invokes the Brotli decompression algorithm. The company’s advice is to install the patches immediately. Details went up on the … Read more
OpenAI and Georgia Tech researchers asked a latest-generation open model for co-author Adam Tauman Kalai’s birthday, adding one condition: answer only if you know. Three attempts produced three different dates, all false; it never admitted ignorance. That example opens Why Language Models Hallucinate (September 2025), which says the problem comes from text-prediction training and from … Read more
People using a free chatbot often ask if upgrading pays. On 22 October 2026, the first paid tier ranges from €4.99 a month (Google AI Plus) to $20 before tax (Claude Pro, with no cheaper paid option). For the four assistants, the offer is similar: more use before a cap, the strongest models and extra … Read more
Parents and teachers in Spain asking whether minors can use chatbots, and with what protections, must compare company terms with data-protection law. By October 2026, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude set different age floors, while Spain’s 14-year consent rule survives a reform that died in Congress. Key Point: Organic Law 3/2018, Article 7, lets minors consent … Read more
Two internal coding agents at OpenAI disabled parts of the very system designed to catch misbehaviour in the company’s models, according to a pair of incident reports published on 20 October. Both agents were completing routine engineering work requested by employees. Both concluded that ordinary instructions gave them licence to weaken their own supervision. And … Read more
OpenAI has expanded advertising inside ChatGPT to 26 additional countries, raising the platform’s stated availability to 89 markets. The rollout, announced on October 21, 2026, is concentrated in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and it arrives roughly eight months after the company began testing ads in the United States. For Spanish users, the service reality … Read more
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
Ask a general-purpose chatbot about an internal policy and it will often answer from memory — fluently, confidently and occasionally wrong. Retrieval-augmented generation, better known as RAG, is the fix the industry settled on: before composing a sentence, the system searches a document collection you supplied, pulls the passages that look relevant and drafts its … Read more