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OpenAI to start «public» advertising tests on ChatGPT

What ads will look like If you click it, you can query it for more information. (Picture: OpenAI)
The tests will happen «during the coming weeks» for ChatGPT Free and Go tiers — and will try to put relevant, clearly labeled ads beneath GPT responses, OpenAI announces.

OpenAI says they won’t share your data or conversation to advertisers, and will «maintain a high standard» where you can turn off personalization if you want to.

They won’t be shown to under-18s, they say, nor will they show on sensitive topics, such as physical health, mental health or politics.

The neat part of the coming ads is that you click on them and query them for further detail, which is a feature not found in traditional advertising.

The Financial times estimates that OpenAI can earn somewhere around the «low billions» from advertising.

Ads won’t be shown for paying tiers, such as Plus, Pro and Enterprise.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement. Writeups on Reuters, The Verge and Ars Technica.

ChatGPT Go expands globally, comes to the United States

A little more dollars for a little more usage. It’s a simple plan, yet effective. (Picture: generated).
ChatGPT Go was first launched as a cheap way to access more GPT queries in India in August, 2025, for around $5. Now, the subscription has become popular enough to expand globally to every market where OpenAI is active.

The idea is that for a just little more money, $8 in the USA, you can get ten times the queries, ten times the file use, and ten times the image generations compared to the free plan.

OpenAI says that since the introduction of the Go subscription tier, they have seen extensive everyday use in tasks such as writing, learning, image generations and problem-solving.

Along with the Free tier, ChatGPT Go will be showing ads once they are ready.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, OpenAI’s sub overview. Writeups on The Verge, MacRumors.

OpenAI to spend $10 billion on compute from AI chip startup Cerebras

Cerebras makes powerful inference chips, for when an AI needs to think a little deeper. (Picture: generated)
The deal will land OpenAI with an added power capacity of 750 megawatts — but it’s not just any kind of compute.

Cerebras makes wafer-scale inference chips (for generating the response an AI gives after a query), looping in networking and high-bandwidth memory on the same die.

This makes for much faster thinking on complex tasks, should enable real-time reasoning, and OpenAI could possibly route those kinds of queries to this kind of compute.

The deal is worth over $10 billion, Reuters writes, and the capacity should come online in multiple tranches to be fully delivered in 2028, OpenAI says.

Sam Altman is an early investor in the company, and OpenAI once considered buying it, TechCrunch reports.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, CNBC and TechCrunch.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for healthcare, clinicians and institutions

From scientific discoveries to sifting through millions of peer-reviewed studies, doctors armed with ChatGPT can lead to better outcomes, OpenAI says. (Picture: Adobe)
Just a couple of days ago, OpenAI announced health tools for consumers and patients — and now it’s coming for the doctors and hospitals, with a HIPAA compliant AI product.

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.

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OpenAI to serve ads in internal version of ChatGPT ahead of public launch

What it could look like with sponsored posts in the sidebar of ChatGPT. (Picture: generated)
According to journalist Alex Heath on the Sources blog, CEO of Applications Fidji Simo has let OpenAI employees know that they plan to start showing ads in an internal version of ChatGPT, hinting that the work at OpenAI is getting ready for prime time.

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.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, an encrypted service for health data

OpenAI wants access to your medical journal, but won’t be giving clinical advice — that’s for doctors to do. (Picture: OpenAI)
230 million users every month have health questions for ChatGPT, and now they are building a «Secure Enclave» for ChatGPT Health.

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.

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OpenAI sees 40 million daily prompts about health care

Ever more people are asking ChatGPT medical questions, OpenAI finds. (Picture: Adobe)
Even after restricting some health care questions, health prompts are booming on ChatGPT, according to a new OpenAI survey.

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.

Anthropic and OpenAI are doubling usage limits until New Year’s

The most popular AI coding platforms are joining in doubling limits this Christmas. (Picture: Adobe)
From Christmas Eve til New Years Eve, you can do a lot of extra coding with Claude and Codex.

Anthropic started the party with Claude, offering Pro and Max users twice the usual limits to close out the year:

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OpenAI drops yearly review on ChatGPT — but only for English countries

Flashy cards and bells and whistles, as ChatGPT walks you through your year. (Picture: OpenAI)
For many, this year has been one long engagement with AI chatbots, and ChatGPT is there to wrap it up with you.

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.

OpenAI quietly rolls out age controls in ChatGPT

ChatGPT's "teen experience" is quietely rolling out.
The «teen experience» on ChatGPT is still quite useful, but lacks insensitive interactions. (Picture: generated)
In order to limit sensitive content for teens, such as graphic violence, harmful viral challenges, sexual or romantic role-play and impossible beauty standards, ChatGPT now assesses their users’ age.

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

OpenAI introduces more granular control of their personalities

New personality settings offer detailed controls for ChatGPT's personality.
New settings in ChatGPT lets you tweak the bot’s personality even more. (Picture: Screenshot)
Since GPT-5 it’s been possible to get ChatGPT to take on a lot of different personalities in how it interacts with the user.

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.

OpenAI launches GPT Image 1.5, up to 4x faster and more precise, lifelike

This lifelike image of Sam Altman as Hugh Hefner was generated in one shot.
One-shotted: “Generate a picture of Sam Altman in the style of Hugh Hefner, in a smoking jacket with a cigar and a whiskey.” (Picture: GPT Image 1.5)
The new image model is faster by a wide margin, and way better at composing detailed, lifelike images.

It also «adheres to your intent more reliably» and keeps elements of the picture, like lighting, composition, and appearance across the editing phase.

The outputs are also much more lifelike, making it ever more difficult to discern AI images from reality.

Does it beat Nano Banana? Yes, it does, according to the almost gold-standard LMArena benchmark, where it instantly climbed to the top spot on «Text-to-image» and «Image Edit.»

At the same time, OpenAI is launching a new feature called ChatGPT Image on the web, which is a handy way to access predefined styles for your pictures and share those you like.

They are even seasonally aware enough to let you turn pictures into Christmas cards.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement (includes lots of examples), ChatGPT Image. Writeups on Engadget, TechCrunch. Discussion on r/Singularity.

ChatGPT’s «adult mode» scheduled to debut in early 2026

"adult mode," or "erotica" as it was previously called, is coming soon to a ChatGPT near you.
«Let adults be adults,» said CEO Sam Altman in October 2025. (Picture: generated)
Altman had previously teased «erotica» for December this year, promising to treat «adults like adults.»

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.

Read more: Writeups on The Verge, and Gizmodo.

Disney invests $1 billion in cross-licensing deal for characters in Sora

Disney licenses beloved characters for use on Sora, and will get to use OpenAI tools in production.
While Disney is licensing to OpenAI, they are fighting other hard over others’ copyright violations. (Picture: andy orin, CC BY 2.0)
Users will be able to use Disney characters without breaking copyrights, in return for Disney getting to use the technology internally for three years.

The deal will license some 200 Disney-owned characters from the likes of Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for use in Sora, free of charge (as in money) and charges (as in lawsuits).

The deal will also see Disney adopt ChatGPT and Sora internally, which is the other way of the license — helping Disney do everything from light sketches to development planning.

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, and it beats Gemini 3 in a lot of benchmarks

GPT-5.2 smashes the ARC-AGI-2 leaderboard handily. (Picture: Screenshot)
As expected, OpenAI released its latest GPT this week, and this time, they are posting benchmarks.

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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