With new tools and greater autonomy, OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot is more capable, and potentially more dangerous, than ever.

California State University is rolling out ChatGPT Edu to its 23 campuses, a $17 million move hailed as an equity win but criticized amid budget cuts and faculty concerns.

"You can learn from everywhere, but you have to do it from scratch," ChatGPT's Nick Turley said. "That trait tends to make someone effective at OpenAI."

When OpenAI released a new version of ChatGPT, people were quick to protest its colder responses. Acknowledging the emotional attachment with chatbots, the company quickly backtracked.

OpenAI's exclusive India launch of ChatGPT Go was disrupted on August 19 due to a UPI payment failure by global fintech giant, Stripe.

Mental health experts say cases of people forming delusional beliefs after hours with AI chatbots are concerning and offer tips on how to help someone affected.

Elon Musk praised OpenAI's GPT-5 model as impressive despite previously stating his Grok 4 Heavy model remains competitive. OpenAI had touted the reduced hallucinations in GPT-5 as one of the top features during the model launch.