OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

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 For Countries Will Give ChatGPT A Huge Advantage, But That's Not Good News - BGR

OpenAI announced a new OpenAI for Countries initiative that might help ChatGPT become an even bigger AI force than it already is.

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]

OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift

OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.

OpenAI is building a social network

ChatGPT versus X?

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.

OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

The company behind ChatGPT is on track to undershoot its five-year revenue projection by upward of 90 percent.

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

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.

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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

OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea

The maker of ChatGPT has a simple suggestion for how to feed the world: simply make them all shareholders in the tech industry.

OpenAI shares data on ChatGPT users with suicidal thoughts, psychosis

The figure could mean potentially hundreds of thousands of users show signs of mental health distress weekly.

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 ...

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …