Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations, and will soon let them contact local businesses for quotes via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/yelp-reviews-chatgpt-geo-partnership
ChatGTP's ongoing enshittification
in the vain hope of earning more money than the AI it costs them.
"Ads arrive on ChatGPT in France"
Https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article…
Elon Musk will blame delayed regulatory approval when not doing the first Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in a blind human in 2026. ChatGPT: "Yes—more precisely, Musk has already laid the rhetorical groundwork for that explanation." https://chatgpt.com/share/6a8b0631-870
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/openai-makes-chatgpt-health-available…
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-a…
OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2102808325742322002
HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-ope
Sources: OpenEvidence, an AI search engine for doctors, raised $250M at a $15B valuation, up from $12B in January; it could be open to selling itself (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-for-medicine-openevidence-fi…