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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…

OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech ...

OpenAI: "Super-App" soll ChatGPT und andere KI-Funktionen zusammenführen
OpenAI plant eine „Super-App“, die ChatGPT und andere Produkte des KI-Konzerns verbinden soll. Auch agentische Funktionen soll sie beinhalten.

A study testing four AI chatbots on 2,267 news stories in English and French: ChatGPT credited news outlets 1% of the time, Gemini 6%, Grok 7%, and Claude 16% (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/202…

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom."

To ChatGPT: Draw a plot of effective visual resolution as a function of penetrating electrode count using the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant approach for up to 16,000 penetrating wire electrodes in V1. https://chatgpt.com/share/6970cd96-60f4-8004-8b95-5fb1f3d58cf8 At …

Reality Check Podcast: ChatGPT and Gemini Fail to Stop their AI Voice Tools From Spreading False Claims & an iPhone 18 Hoax
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/reality-check-podcast-chatgpt-and

OpenEvidence, which is building "ChatGPT for doctors", raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/openevidence-chatg…

OpenEvidence, the 'ChatGPT for doctors,' doubles valuation to $12 billion
OpenEvidence, based in Massachusetts, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.

OpenAI sucht Werbetreibende – Anzeigen schon ab Februar
Ab Februar sollen bereits Anzeigen in ChatGPT auftauchen. Dafür sucht OpenAI zunächst Partner. Die sollen für Impressionen zahlen.
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OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/chatgpt-launches-a-year-end-review…

ChatGPT launches a year-end review like Spotify Wrapped | TechCrunch
The experience includes awards, poems, and pictures referencing your year in chat.

OpenAI says users aged 18-24 account for ~50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT usage in India; Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/openai-says-18-to-24-year-olds-…

OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India | TechCrunch
The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/musk-altman-tussle-reports-…

Musk and Altman Tussle Over Reports of ChatGPT-Linked Deaths
Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on X this week over media reports of deaths linked to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI-related safety issues. On Monday, Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide after a series of delusional conversations with ChatGPT, calling the story “diabolical” and saying that AI should “not pander to delusions.” On Tuesday, he followed up with