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
Anthropic has published version 2.2 of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the framework that decides when the company may — and may not — train and release more capable models. Announced on 13 October 2026 on its official blog, the update brings three structural changes: finer-grained thresholds for biosecurity and cybersecurity capabilities, an independent external … Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation has spent months absorbing automated traffic its servers were never dimensioned to handle, and on October 5, 2026 it went public. In a formal statement, the non-profit confirmed that AI agents had hammered Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with millions of automated requests — and that some of them tried, without success, … Read more
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 has parted ways with three of its own safety and alignment researchers — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni — and the dispute has spilled into public view. The trio have published an open letter accusing the company of retaliating against staff who warned that its newest models are becoming progressively harder to … Read more