Why some people can't stop talking to ChatGPT—researchers uncover how users develop unexpected emotional bonds.

OpenAI just closed a record-breaking fundraising round. On Monday, the ChatGPT-maker announced that it had raised $40 billion, with Japan's SoftBank contributing $30 billion and investors like Microsoft and Thrive investing the rest,

For now, it seems that the most effective way of doing this is to get ChatGPT to recreate an existing receipt, which can then be changed to show whatever prices you'd like. OpenAI says it isn't too worried, but it does appear to be an effective new tool for digital fraudsters and troublemakers.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, says it took five days for ChatGPT to reach 1 million users, a number that seemed insanely fast a little more than two years ago. On Monday, when the company launched the latest iteration of its chatbot, it collected another 1 million users in just 60 minutes.

OpenAI's new image generator, powered by its GPT-4o model, is now available to all users, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X. The feature was until now

OpenAI’s latest image update to ChatGPT isn’t just a boon for Studio Ghibli fans. It’s also a gift to businesses of all sizes looking to generate visuals—from marketing photography, advertisements and more—on the cheap.

(Reuters) - The frenzy to create Ghibli-style AI art using ChatGPT's image-generation tool led to a record surge in users for OpenAI's chatbot last week, straining its servers and temporarily limiting the feature's usage.

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be the world's most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to third-party traffic data.