The figure could mean potentially hundreds of thousands of users show signs of mental health distress weekly.
OpenAI launches a sub-$5 ChatGPT plan in India | TechCrunch
This plan will offer 10x more messages and image generation than the free tier, among other benefits.
OpenAI may soon let you 'sign in with ChatGPT' for other apps | TechCrunch
OpenAI may soon let users sign in to third party services with their ChatGPT accounts, and is currently trying to gauge developer interest.
It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.
It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]
ChatGPT's free version is 26 times more likely to respond inappropriately to psychotic delusions
When users express delusions, artificial intelligence chatbots tend to validate their unusual thoughts rather than offering help. A new JAMA Psychiatry study provides evidence that these tools pose serious risks for people experiencing severe mental illness.
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser's delusions and ignored her warnings | TechCrunch
OpenAI ignored three warnings that a ChatGPT user was dangerous — including its own mass-casualty flag — while he stalked and harassed his ex-girlfriend, a new lawsuit alleges.
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI’s chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology.
What makes a great ChatGPT app | OpenAI Developers
How to build capabilities that make conversations better.
New research: AI chatbots may worsen mental illness
A new study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital suggests that the use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT can have serious negative consequences for people with mental illness. The researchers are calling for increased awareness among healthcare professionals and for regulation.
Do Self-Promotional “Best” Lists Boost ChatGPT Visibility? Study of 26,283 Source URLs
Just last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that more than 800 million people use the platform each week. But what does it take to get mentioned and
Platform Obscurantism
ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and enterprises. When OpenAI positions ChatGPT primarily as a conversational interface, it obscures this platform identity, one that extracts value not only from user data and app store partnerships, but ...
Chatbots are 'constantly validating everything' even when you're suicidal. New research measures how dangerous AI psychosis really is | Fortune
It's free, easy to use, doesn't have a stigma around it, and makes you feel better. Researchers and experts warn that's the problem with chatbots.
ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations
ChatGPT Health was launched in January 2026 as OpenAI’s consumer health tool and has reached millions of users. Here we conducted a structured stress test of triage recommendations using 60 clinician-authored vignettes across 21 clinical domains under 16 factorial conditions, yielding 960 total responses. Performance followed an inverted U-shaped pattern, with the most dangerous failures concentrated at clinical extremes—nonurgent presentations (35%) and emergency conditions (48%). Among gold-standard emergencies, the system undertriaged 52% of cases, directing patients with diabetic ketoacidosis or impending respiratory failure to 24–48 h evaluation rather than the emergency department, while correctly triaging classical emergencies such as stroke and anaphylaxis. When family or friends minimized symptoms, indicating anchoring bias, triage recommendations shifted significantly in edge cases (odds ratio = 11.7, 95% confidence interval = 3.7–36.6), with the majority of shifts toward less urgent care. Crisis-intervention messages activated unpredictably across suicidal ideation presentations, occurring more frequently when patients described no specific method than when they did. Patient race, sex and barriers to care did not show significant effects, although confidence intervals did not exclude clinically meaningful differences. These findings reveal missed high-risk emergencies and inconsistent activation of crisis safeguards, raising safety concerns that warrant prospective validation before consumer-scale deployment of artificial intelligence triage systems.
