Will you trust ChatGPT once it has ads?

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Sam Altman
Last year OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he thought ads were lame. Now he seems more interested.

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3 years old, 800 million users, 29,000 prompts a second: ChatGPT's meteoric rise, by the numbers

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OpenAI's ChatGPT launched on November 30, 2022.

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A high school dropout who got hired at OpenAI says he used ChatGPT to learn Ph.D.-level AI

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A high school dropout says ChatGPT helped him learn PhD-level AI. Now at OpenAI's Sora team, he says credentials matter less than results.

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I asked ChatGPT and Gemini to tell me what my job will look like in 5 years. Here's what they told me.

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I'm trying really, really hard to be excited about the secretive new OpenAI device. But I just can't do it.

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive
Sam Altman and Jony Ive are working on a mystery hardware device for OpenAI.

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I tried China's hot new vibe coding app. One feature is light-years ahead of ChatGPT.

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China's new vibecoding app, LingGuang, has real-time camera analysis and instant mini-apps.

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Salesforce's Marc Benioff says Google's Gemini 3 just blew past ChatGPT: 'I'm not going back'

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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The godfather of Meta's AI thinks the AI boom is a dead end

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AI researcher Yann LeCun, onstage at an event in Brooklyn, November 2025
Yann LeCun is a high-profile AI researcher at Meta who thinks Meta, and the rest of the AI industry, are taking the wrong approach to AI.

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Fidji Simo says OpenAI can't afford not to strike massive compute deals: 'What's much riskier would be to not lean into compute'

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OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo

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I tried ChatGPT-5.1's personality presets. Cynical and Quirky are my favorites.

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Screenshot of Chatgpt personalization options
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT-5.1, featuring seven new personality presets for user customization.

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