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OpenAI says 700 million users this week, announces wellness updates

Lots of new users for ChatGPT, now it is announcing better health detection.
Numbers keep rising for ChatGPT, but the mental health updates might be more important. (Picture: Adobe)
The milestone comes just four months after they announced 500 million in March, and is four times the volume they had last year.

That number spans all of ChatGPT’s accounts, ranging from free to Pro and everything in between, and is rapidly accelerating, writes CNBC.

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ChatGPT removes sharing with Google feature, and other Friday news in short

This checkbox would let anyone use Google to find your secrets.
OpenAI has since removed the checkbox that would share your chat with search engines.(Picture: Screenshot, OpenAI)
If you clicked this box, your ChatGPT session would be on Google
ChatGPT was just two clicks away from spilling your secrets to Google, an investigation found yesterday. The «Make this chat discoverable» button on the share feature would register the whole chat on search engines. Plenty of people made that mistake, sharing «deeply personal details, including struggles with addiction, experiences of physical abuse, or serious mental health issues.» OpenAI removed the feature shortly after, saying it «introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.» They are now scrambling to remove «indexed content from the relevant search engines.»

Apple open to mergers and acquisitions in AI space
— We’re very open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap, Apple’s Tim Cook said on yesterday’s earnings call. — We are not stuck on a certain size company, although the ones that we have acquired thus far this year are small in nature. He also said Apple was going to «significantly» grow it’s AI investments, after the company reported a 10% increase in revenue — the largest jump since 2021. They are also «making good progress» on personalizing Siri, he said.

Zuckerberg throws shade on open source projects
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta recently posted a manifesto of sorts, mapping out what he sees as a benevolent «personal superintelligence» «for everyone.» In it, he quietly states that superintelligence will pose new safety concerns, and «We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.» He repeated this in his later earnings call, saying «we kind of wrestle with whether it’s productive or helpful to share that.» See also his original post.

Developers are slightly souring on AI coding
A new survey from Stack Overflow shows a significant drop in developer trust in AI coding, with trust in its accuracy dropping from 40% in previous years to 29% in 2025. «Favorability» has also dropped from 72% to 60% on a yearly basis. 52% of developers say they use AI agents in their work, while 72% reject «vibe coding.» The survey was taken with 49,000 worldwide developers. Stack Overflow is no stranger to AI effects, having dropped sharply after the AI coding boom.

OpenAI unveils Stargate Norway — its first data center in Europe

Norway has cheap and abundant hydropower, tempting Stargate to build there.
For its first European data center, OpenAI chose Norway for its climate and cheap hydropower. (Picture: Adobe)
The facility in Narvik, Northern Norway was selected for its cool climate and abundant clean energy, and will host 100,000 Nvidia chips with a total power consumption of 230 MW.

It will run mostly ChatGPT loads, but «surplus capacity» will be made available to local and North European developers, and government programs, which is in high demand.

ChatGPT use in Norway has quadrupled in the past year, OpenAI says in its statement on the project, and there are thousands of developers on the platform.

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OpenAI debuts «Study Mode» to help students learn, not just copy

OpenAIs Study Mode will teach you the problems - and not just provide you with answers.
Study mode can help learn iteratively, instead of just spewing out answers. (Picture: OpenAI)
The new feature is available across almost all plans, including the free tier — and might just help with the ChatGPT cheating epidemic in schools and universities.

The general idea behind the mode is that it can ask Socratic questions to assess your knowledge levels and guide you step by step through problems — to help you learn instead of just giving you a quick fix.

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PSA: ChatGPT Agent is coming to Europe, after all

After saying at the model launch that they were still working on European access, less than a week later, OpenAI sends this tweet:

That clearly says the agent is coming to Pro Users in the «European Economic Area and Switzerland.»

It also says Plus users — globally — should have access over the next few days.

So if you happen to be in Europe, are a Pro or Plus subscriber, you should get access to the model shortly.

UPDATE 25/7/25: OpenAI reports that the rollout is complete. You can find it in the feature bar at the bottom of the app window by clicking on the “Agent” icon.

Stargate was not dead: OpenAI announces 4.5 GW data center in Texas

The first Stargate data center is already partly up and running.
What problems? Parts of the Stargate Abilene data center are already starting to come online. (Picture: OpenAI)
Following reports over the weekend that the Stargate project, aiming to invest $500 billion dollars in 10 GW of datacenter capacity, was in trouble over crucial terms like where to put them, OpenAI has responded:

Their new 4.5 GW data center in Abilene, Texas, built in cooperation with Oracle, is indeed part of the Stargate project, they say. As a reply to the report, they are showing operations are already starting.

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So, who really has the most GPUs in the AI race?

AI companies are investing greatly in GPUs and its hard to catch up. Here's what we know so far.
According to this chart, the best compute units are GPUs, by far — and those green dots are all made by Nvidia. (Picture: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0)
Sam Altman says OpenAI will deploy more than a million GPUs by the end of the year. Meta says it’ll beat that. Elon says xAI is building the world’s biggest AI supercomputer.

But here’s the truth: None of these numbers are easy to verify — and each company counts differently.

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OpenAI wins Math Olympiad gold, a major milestone for AI development

The gold medal in the Math Olympiad was achieved using no tools, no internet and with a pure reasoning model.
The International Mathematical Olympiad gold medal has been long sought by the AI industry, as it is one of the most difficult cognitive competitions out there. (Picture: OpenAI)
They got the accomplishment with a «general-purpose reinforcement learning» model, and not a specialized single-purpose math tool — using pure, natural language generative AI.

OpenAI says it was achieved with «our latest experimental reasoning LLM:»

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent mode, for tasks both easy and tough

The new ChatGPT Agent can do common tasks as well as analyzing heavy datasets using code.
ChatGPT Agent can do lots more than simply ordering flights, it can check calendars and emails and also run code. (Picture: OpenAI)
The new model will be able to do stuff online, like check for airplane tickets and scan your Gmail, as well as running code, doing research and create Powerpoint, Excel files based on the results.

The ChatGPT Agent should be available in the model selector at the bottom of the ChatGPT window in the app for Pro, Plus and Teams users as of Thursday, but rollout will be «over the next few days,» or over «the coming weeks» for Enterprise and Education users.

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Heads up: There’s an OpenAI livestream announcement coming

OpenAI is pushing a livestream tonight/early morning at 10am PST/1900 CET, with a tweet saying:

Some expect the company to launch Odyssey — a rumored blend of deep research, agentic capabilities, and access to your Drive files, and they seem on the money. If true, it could revolutionize coding and research workflows.

Others are fixated on the cursor in the teaser, which circles through five points — surely that must mean ChatGPT-5? Meanwhile, another camp is betting on the long-awaited OpenAI browser, complete with built-in agents.

Speculation is running hot. The only way to know for sure? Tune in later — or tune out and catch the fallout in the news.

Here’s the teaser posted last night, you can likely catch it on Youtube, and keep an eye on OpenAIs x.com account.

UPDATE: it was ChatGPT Agent. The news is here.

OpenAI gets hit with open-weights reality, delays model indefinitely

Is OpenAI getting cold feet on releasing and open model?
Open weights means people get to thinker under the hood of the model, a first for OpenAI. (Picture: generated).
CEO Sam Altman just tweeted another delay to their open-weight model, due to security concerns, saying «once weights are out, they can’t be pulled back.»

OpenAI had previously planned for June release, and then postponed it to «later this summer,» claiming great progress and that the team was «excited» about the new model.

Very good, or just recycled o-series?
It was supposed to be a «very good model,» but «our research team did something unexpected and quite amazing,» @sama said on June 11.

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Google hires top execs, team from Windsurf — upending OpenAIs deal

Google hires top execs and talent from Windsurf
Just as talks with OpenAI ended, Windsurf turned to Google. (Picture: Windsurf)
OpenAI had been negotiating a $3 billion to acquire the agentic coding platform, but Google just snagged their top executives to work in their field for its Gemini platform.

The deal will see Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a small team join Google’s DeepMind division.

Also licensing key tech
Further, Google will invest $2.4 billion in a non-exclusive deal to license Windsurf’s technology, reports Reuters, among others.

OpenAI had been in long-winding talks to buy the company, in its biggest deal yet, and many said it was just around the corner, as late as in May, 2025.

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Reuters: OpenAI to launch Chromium-based web browser «within weeks»

Three sources tell Reuters that a browser from OpenAI is forthcoming.
A ChatGPT-based browser could look a little like this screenshot of OpenAI’s Operator. (Picture: OpenAI)
Rumors have been spinning since the company hired two Google vice presidents who were part of the original Chrome team.

Now, Reuters is reporting that it’s just around the corner.

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With help from top AI labs, American teachers to get better, free training

AFT, the teacher's union is partnering with Big AI for better training on ethical classroom use.
ChatGPT usage is way up in K-12 schools, and now teachers are getting a leg up in how to use it better. (Picture: Wesley Fryer, CC BY 2.0)
With help and funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, the American Federation of Teachers hopes to educate 400 000 teachers across the USA in ethical AI use in classrooms.

The program will begin right away with virtual, online training for all 1.8 million members of the union, and in New York City with a «three-day training session, including six hours of AI-focused material that highlighted practical, hands-on ways to marry the emerging technology with established pedagogy.»

Already used by a fourth of students
According to the latest data, from February 2025, 79% of teens said they had heard about ChatGPT, while 26% admitted to using it in schoolwork — and there are a plethora of other tools available.

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Meta announces completion of «Superintelligence Labs»

Zuckerberg announces the completion of the «Meta Superintelligence Labs»
Meta’s historical hiring spree might come to a close now they’ve announced their team. (Picture: Carnaval.com Studios, CC BY 2.0)
After a few hectic weeks of agressively poaching talent from their rivals, and an acqiusition or two, Meta reveals the completion of their new AI lab.

This comes hot on the heels of several months or years of what Zuckerberg deemed lackluster performance from the Llama team, before he decided to get some seasoned pros in.

The new team is headed up Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman from Scale AI and Github, respectively.

They will be joined by an 11-man team that will spearhead Metas future AI efforts, that reads like a who’s who of significant AI efforts over the last couple of years from Anthropic, OpenAI and even Google’s DeepMind:

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