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.
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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.
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«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.
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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:
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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.
It was launched «expecting a small research audience,» OpenAI’s Nick Turley says on x.com, but «within hours, the usage was far beyond anything we’d prepared for.»
Launch page is still live
On the preserved introduction page at OpenAI, it says «we are presenting ChatGPT, and look forward to feedback from users to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses of the model.»
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For simple shopping questions and when you already kind of know what you want, normal ChatGPT is excellent at finding it.
But when you are unsure and want more depth, the new ChatGPT shopping assistant clicks in with more granular depth from qthe uestions you may have, and presents you with rich visuals and comparisons.
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Small-but-happy win:
If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!
— Sam Altman (@sama) November 14, 2025
The em-dash (double-sized dash: —) was a notorious haunt and irritation for power users of ChatGPT, and even explicit instructions to not use it would often result in a reply using em-dashes.
It was also a good hint that the text might be produced by the AI chatbot.
So, while not an earth-shattering development, this little, cosmetic change will surely be welcomed by many.
Read more: Ars Technica and TechCrunch both wax poetic, sarcastically about the «new feature.» See also discussion on r/ChatGPT and r/Singularity.
OpenAI are uncharacteristically not posting any benchmarks on their launch page, simply describing both models as «more capable and useful,» and «more intelligent.»
Both models are also supposed to be «warmer and more emphatic.»
People want friendly bots
— We heard clearly from users that great AI should not only be smart, but also enjoyable to talk to, OpenAI writes.
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There’s talk about Google deprecating models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and its whole family by the end of November to make way for the upcoming Gemini 3.0, said by CEO Sundar Pichai to arrive this year. Many say a preview is launching soon.
There is even a purported leak of Nano Bana 2, the next generation of Gemini’s image generator, and a lot of people are blown out of the water by it.
Some people are also claiming to have spotted GPT-5.1 in OpenAI source code, which could mean we are getting closer to release of that model, too.
Then rumor has it that the new Kimi 2 model from China, said to have been developed for a paltry 4.6 million dollars, is going head to head with GPT-5 in a benchmark collection. It’s made by a company called Moonshot that is backed by Alibaba.
None of this is confirmed news, though, and I’ll be closely watching for anything official, which might be coming sooner than we think.
— GPT-5 is the first moment where you see a glimmer of AI doing new science. It’s very tiny things, but here and there someone’s posting like, “Oh, it figured this thing out,” or “Oh, it came up with this new idea,” or “Oh, it was a useful collaborator on this paper,” Altman said.
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The policy wasn’t new, nor a change, but a consolidation of several different ones, and led to some confusion, it would seem.
OpenAI’s head of health, Karan Singhal, denies any changes entirely, saying ChatGPT will «continue to be a great resource for health information:»
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OpenAI has updated ChatGPT’s usage policies of October 29, banning a vast swath of content where it was arguably the most useful — as in interpreting medical imagery and helping with medical diagnosis, and offering legal or financial advice.
The idea is to stop ChatGPT (and any other OpenAI model) from giving advice that could be interpreted as professional, fiduciary, or legally binding guidance, as required by the EU AI Act and American FDA guidance.
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The categories are «psychosis, mania or other severe mental health symptoms,» which consists of around 0.07% of conversations — or 550,000 people in actual numbers.
Second is «self-harm and suicide,» ticking in at 0.15% of ChatGPT users — or 1.2 million in actual numbers.
And the third is «emotional reliance on AI,» accounting for 0.15% of users in a given week, also 1.2 million in real numbers.
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