ChatGPT for healthcare can instantly draw upon millions of peer-reviewed research studies, health guidance and clinical guidelines, and can help clinicians reason through cases with greater confidence, OpenAI says.
We also know from the earlier days of ChatGPT that it can have an uncanny ability to compare millions of medical images to support a diagnosis — by doctors, not patients.
Continue reading “OpenAI announces ChatGPT for healthcare, clinicians and institutions”
Bleepingcomputer also quoted yesterday a report from The Information (paywalled) saying that mockups displaying sponsored information have begun to appear in a sidebar next to the to the main ChatGPT window internally.
Continue reading “OpenAI to serve ads in internal version of ChatGPT ahead of public launch”
The service will most importantly have access to your medical journals, but also patches into some popular services, like Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, Instacart and Peloton.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, an encrypted service for health data”
5% of all questions globally are about health, one in four questions per week are the same — and that adds up in aggregate to a really big number.
It’s not just normal users curious about care that ask the chatbot, but health care professionals, too. Of these, 46% of nurses, 41% of pharmacy workers, and 48% of physicians say they use ChatGPT once per week or more.
The questions usually roll in outside of normal clinical hours, and happen especially in health care deserts, OpenAI says.
OpenAI has great ambitions for the field, and says in their report that the next boundary to cross is for robotic wet labs and physical AI.
They also tick off a long list of how OpenAI can aid in scientific discovery and drug development.
Read more: OpenAI’s report, writeups on Gizmodo and Axios.
TechCrunch has spotted a flashy, card- and graphics-based «Your Year with ChatGPT» getting rolled out this holiday season.
It’s supposed to be a «lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled» little romp through the year.
The trick is that you need an English account for those, but at least it works from the free tiers all the way up to Pro — with a minimum of engagement, wile Enterprise and Edu accounts are left out.
Everyone else can turn on a slightly less flashy rehash of your GPT usage for the year by simply typing «Show me my year with ChatGPT» right in the chat window, and it will offer a nice little summary of your usage.
It’s not fancy or flashy, but it might turn out a smile or two as you remember some epic AI moments of the year gone by.
Read more at: TechCrunch and 9to5Mac.
The age-gating is done in the background magic of the AI, determining general topics the user talks about, or things like the times of day the user is on ChatGPT.
It will not require mass-identification of the user base, unless you want to complain about getting age-gated to the «teen experience.»
To do this, you can upload a selfie to ChatGPT in the Account Settings, by clicking on Age Verification and selecting Verify Age.
From here, ChatGPT can determine your age from a simple selfie, but if that is not enough, you might have to offer up a Government ID.
On OpenAI’s Age prediction page, it says «this feature is still rolling out, so you might not see it yet depending on where you live.»
More at: OpenAI’s Age prediction page
Now, the controls for this has become much more detailed, with added «characteristics.»
You can control to what extent you want your chatbot to be Warm or Enthusiastic, and how much it uses Emoji and Headers & Lists, in addition to using a different «main voice and tone.»
The new settings are available to all users in the «Personalization» setting.
This is in line with OpenAI’s policy of making ChatGPT more personalized and customized for the end user — and we can probably expect more of this in the future.
Read more: writeup at The Verge.
That means you can ask ChatGPT to create playlists, find songs, albums and artists — which can be helpful for those faint songs you can only describe from memory, or for recommending similar songs in the same lane.
The app can even create complex playlists based on natural language and preferences right in ChatGPT, and will give you an option to add it to your library — always asking politely first.
To add it, go to Settings->Apps->Browse apps in the ChatGPT app, and add it from the list. You will then have access by typing /Apple Music.
You will be asked to sign in to Apple Music from your account, and non-subscribers will only be able to listen to short previews of songs.
Read more: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and Digital Music News.
OpenAI now uses the term «adult mode» for the feature, and expects it to arrive in Q1 next year — once they are comfortable with their age-gating.
During the introduction of GPT-5.2, Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, said that they want to stick the age prediction on their models before debuting NSFW content, according to The Verge.
The idea behind age verification is primarily to impose stricter rules for teens on ChatGPT, but the practical upside is that they can also have looser rules for adults.
The tricky part is to not «misidentify adults,» Simo said.
It comes after OpenAI felt overtaken in the AI race by Anthropic and Google’s Gemini, when CEO Altman declared «Code Red» to overtake their rivals. That was a little over a week ago, and now the results are in.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, and it beats Gemini 3 in a lot of benchmarks”
Topping this chart is another clear indicator of how people have come to use a lot of AI.
Besting Google on the list could also indicate ChatGPT’s real threat to the search behemoth — as more and more people prefer to use it instead of Google’s offerings, TechCrunch notes.
The only other AI app on Apple’s top list is Google Gemini, ticking in at a respectable 10th place, still ahead of Facebook and Temu, which topped the chart last year.
Read more: Apple’s 2025 chart, writeups by MacRumors and TechCrunch.
Continue reading “Adobe launches apps in ChatGPT for image, PDF editing”
«The history of general purpose technologies» shows that the real value starts flowing once firms start adopting their capabilities at scale, explains OpenAI, and — Enterprise AI now appears to be entering this phase.
Continue reading “OpenAI’s new enterprise report shows more adoption — and higher use”
This comes hot on the heels of an engineer discovering ad code in the Android app — which left a lot of people cautious of such inserts.
It happened to enough people to notice, along with this writer, but it has since been turned off, says Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer at OpenAI:
Continue reading “Head of ChatGPT says not doing ad tests, despite a Target notice this week”
This has now caused Altman to delay other initiatives, such as ads, to focus on making a better ChatGPT, paywalled The Information writes, citing an internal memo.
They are apparently planning to release a new reasoning model next week that will be «ahead of Gemini 3.» But this needs a little more polishing on the «experience.»
Just last week, a developer revealed ad code in the latest ChatGPT beta — meaning that their work on ads was fairly advanced and almost ready to ship.
This work is now on the back burner, at least until next week, when OpenAI hopes to reclaim their crown.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), and Reuters. Discussion on r/Singularity.
