In a bid to popularize agents beyond enthusiasts and IT departments, these agents are for everyone, and are sharebale between teams.
They are also very easy to create; simply add a description of the job you want done, and ChatGPT walks you through the process of turning it into an agent.
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— If we think of Dall-e as cave drawings, and Images 1.0 as ancient art, then Images 2.0 is the Renaissance, OpenAI claims, according to Gizmodo.
It is a little bit faster to generate, and offers better instruction following, more accurate object placement — and reasoning with web search.
That means it can render multiple images from a single prompt, and «double-check» its outputs, as well as offering the latest information in the picture.
As for the benchmarks, GPT Image 2.0 has entered LMArena’s leaderboards at #1 for Text-to-Image with a whopping 242 point lead, and is 125 points ahead on Single-Image-Edit and up 90 on Multi-Image Edit.
The model is available today across all of ChatGPT’s tiers. For the thinking mode, you’ll need a paid Plus, Pro or Business subscription.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Launch thread, Gizmodo and The Verge.
— Better model performance lifts the rest of the stack. «Spud» will make all of our key products significantly better, writes Dresser, without giving any timeline for release.
She also touts their compute advantage, saying it will show up in higher token limits, in training stronger models, and as a better fit for multi-year, multi-functional customer needs.
The enterprise markets that OpenAI has been focusing on of late are maturing, she writes, and says customers aren’t necessarily looking for the latest and greatest, but the best fit, the best workflows, and day-to-day operations, where they hope «Spud» will deliver.
She then has some choice words on Anthropic; saying it was a strategic misstep «not to acquire enough compute,» that their focus on coding makes them «a single-product company in a platform war,» and that «their story is built on fear, restriction.»
Read more: The Verge has the memo, Axios, CNBC focuses on the Amazon business.
This also closes the huge gap between the Plus tier at $20/month and the top Pro tier at $200/month.
Sam Altman says the new tier is by very popular demand. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch that 3 million people are using Codex every week, and it’s growing by more than 70% per month.
To celebrate the launch of the new tier, OpenAI is increasing usage limits for the $100 plan to 10x for Codex, while the $200 plan remains at 20x.
Read more: OpenAI’s announcement thread, OpenAI’s pricing page, TechCrunch and CNBC.
85% of these users in the USA are eligible to receive ads, but far fewer ads are shown in the trial that started in February.
The minimum asking price to get on the test program is said to be $200,000 and the projected revenue once the trial goes live to more users is about a billion dollars a year.
80% of the advertisers on the platform are small and medium-sized businesses, Reuters notes, and OpenAI is set to debut a self-serve advertising platform already in April.
Offering an Adult Mode on ChatGPT was a promise made by CEO Sam Altman in October 2025, but quickly ran into problems, leading to delays, and later postponement.
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Starting in June, if users have Gemini or Claude installed on their phones, Siri will be able to use those bots instead, by recording their preferred «Extension» in Settings.
That would end the ChatGPT monopoly that OpenAI has enjoyed since 2024, and opens up the chatbot ecosystem to other players, likely staving off regulators.
Opening up the platform is for the system level Siri queries native to iOS itself, and must not be confused with the standalone Siri app, which will use Gemini in a billion dollar deal.
Read more: Bloomberg (paywalled), Gizmodo, Reuters, and MacRumors.
That means the test with showing some ads to about 5% of users is coming to an end, and the full plan will start up just after easter.
The limited advertising has so far been a success. The main complaint from advertisers is that it’s going too slow, according to CNBC. Most of them are happy and ready to spend more — with more varied ads.
— We’re encouraged by early signals from users and participating brands, and continue to see strong interest from advertisers, OpenAI tells CNBC.
The advertising program on Free and Go tiers is expected to earn OpenAI about $1 billion per year, and usher in a third tier for advertisers in addition to Search, Social, and Retail.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), Reuters, and CNBC.
The app will make it easier for teams within OpenAI to work together, the WSJ reports, and will help other users with productivity-related tasks, as they double down on enterprise users.
The standalone ChatGPT app will not be affected by the move, although the paper notes that OpenAI feels it has lost attention by focusing on «side quests» like the Sora app — now rumored to get included in ChatGPT proper.
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo will be leading the super app effort, and she tweets that:
— When new bets start to work, like we’re seeing now with Codex, it’s very important to double down on them and avoid distractions.
Read more: The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.
But many had noticed that it had become filled with follow-up questions for simple queries, offering «one strange trick,» «would you like me to tell you three things that…» and «You’ll never believe…»
These teaser-style responses were not just annoying, but sometimes frustrating — as if the bot had become optimized for engagement and tried to keep the conversation going after already answering the query.
The good news is that as of March 16, 2026, OpenAI has upgraded the model to show less of this slop, and users should already be noticing an improvement in «follow-up tone.»
Read more: OpenAI’s update page, Android Headlines.
Touted by CEO Sam Altman as letting «adults be adults» in October 2025, it was later delayed and then deprioritized last week.
It now seems the company’s internal advisory board is against going forward with the feature, saying it could foster «unhealthy emotional dependence,» Mashable writes.
Also holding back the launch is the fact that ChatGPT’s age checks aren’t that good, and has a rather large error rate of 12% on identifying kids and teens, The Verge reports.
100 million under 18s use ChatGPT every week, which would mean that some 12 million of them could be classified as adults and exposed to «sexualized conversations.»
The feature is currently postponed due to «other priorities,» but is said to skirt images, voice and video for pure text, and will supposedly be «smutty,» not «pornographic,» the Verge says.
Read more: The Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Mashable and The Verge.
GPT-5.4-mini can be accessed today by choosing «Thinking» from the model picker on the Free and Pro tiers.
The model is stronger than 5-mini on reasoning, multimodal understanding, tool use and subagents, OpenAI says.
It is also available in Codex, where it uses only 30% of tokens for the same task compared to 5.4 proper — and is usable for workloads where latency and speed are important.
Also introduced today is GPT-5.4-nano, which is for the times when speed and cost matter most. It costs only $0.20/$1.25 per 1M tokens, and is handy for mass classification, ranking, coding subagents and compaction.
Nano doesn’t support web search or computer use, and is only available in the API.
Read more: OpenAI’s introduction, Tibor Blaho on X.com, Engadget.
The chatbots cleared for «drafting and editing documents, summarizing information, preparing talking points and briefing material, and conducting research and analysis» are ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini on Workspace and Copilot, according to Business Insider.
Anthropic’s Claude is not on the list, although it has been approved for use in The House of Representatives since September 2024. President Trump earlier said government agencies shouldn’t use Claude after the Pentagon spat in February.
The Sergeant at Arms will now provide all Senate employees with an AI chatbot license at no cost. The office also touts Copilot Chat as integrated with Office 365 and is usable with Word and Excel — although Claude also offers this capability.
Read more: Business Insider has the memo, NY Times reported it first. Popvox has a Congressional AI tracker.
According to The Information’s x.com post, the release seems imminent, while Blaho has spotted Sora generation mentions and ID’s in the latest Andoid beta ChatGPT App.
Sora 2 was launched as a quasi social network with its own app in October 2025 and was invite-only.
Judging by early search interest on Google for «Sora invite code» soon after launch, interest for the app greatly exceeded capacity and available invites.
It produces 10-second clips from prompts or pictures and promises to put your likeness in anything you can imagine. It briefly went viral, running up some 920 million weekly users before dropping from #1 to #165 in the App Store.
Putting the app’s features into the mainline GPT app will bring it up to par with Google’s AI subscriptions, which gives users access to the video generator Veo 3 on the $25 Pro plan.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), Tibor Blaho on X, and Reuters.
140 million people use ChatGPT to help them understand math and science concepts every week. pic.twitter.com/hIK2t7joKN
— ChatGPT (@ChatGPTapp) March 10, 2026
That’s a big number out of 900 million weekly ChatGPT users, accounting for about a sixth of the total usage and outperforming even health questions.
In their announcement, OpenAI says that more than half of U.S. adults struggle with math, and don’t feel confident teaching it to their kids.
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