After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules
DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to scan grants for terms related to DEI.
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump’s agenda.
Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style
AI "writers" are seething after ChatGPT began refusing requests to mimic a specific author's style, living or dead.
'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education
“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”
Jay Van Bavel, PhD on Twitter / X
Giving students unfettered access to chatbots can harm educational outcomesHaving AI access while solving problems significantly improves performance (48% improvement in grades for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor).However, when access to AI was taken away, students actually… pic.twitter.com/2g8GJcoRya— Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) July 18, 2026
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
Papers and peer reviews with evidence of ChatGPT writing
Retraction Watch readers have likely heard about papers showing evidence that they were written by ChatGPT, including one that went viral. We and others have reported on the phenomenon. Here’…
AI Has Killed an Entire Industry — People Who Got Paid to Do Homework for College Kids
Thousands of college-educated Kenyans built real careers ghostwriting essays for students overseas. ChatGPT ended it almost instantly
Permissioned data proposal discussion
This is a forum thread to collect feedback on the permissioned data protocol proposal! To clarify: this is still a proposal. I expect many changes along the way. Suggestions may also be submitted as issues/PRs. I had hoped to have an alpha version of the PDS alongside this proposal, however I didn’t quite get there yet. Hoping to have that in the next couple weeks. The previous thread was here: Early permissioned data proposal draft feedback Changes since then: Responded to a bunch of feed...
ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.
File storage and Library in ChatGPT | OpenAI Help Center
Library is available to ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, and Business users, and is rolling out to Enterprise, Edu, and Healthcare workspaces, including those in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Why the Gates Foundation Abandoned Article Processing Charges (and What They’re Doing Instead)
In 2024, the Gates Foundation updated their Open Access Policy to redirect funds from APCs to support more equitable models. Ashley Farley explains their thinking and vision for the future.
