I just tried ChatGPT’s new ‘Scheduled Tasks’ feature — and it’s the closest thing yet to a real AI assistant

ChatGPT’s new Scheduled Tasks feature transforms the chatbot into something that is closer to a real AI assistant.

ChatGPT and Gemini could be quietly affecting your voting decisions, analysis shows

New analysis found that ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, and Arya handled political questions very differently, with some showing clearer partisan slants.

OpenAI just made GPT-5.5 Instant more fun to talk to, and users may actually notice

OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, making ChatGPT’s default model more conversational, better at advice, and easier to talk to during everyday interactions.

The maker of ChatGPT wants to make open-source projects less of a security bargain

As AI tools flood open-source maintainers with low quality bug reports, OpenAI’s new Patch the Planet initiative aims to filter out the noise and fix real threats.

I asked ChatGPT and Claude to do my grocery shopping — one felt like the future

I compared Instacart shopping through ChatGPT and Claude and found one key difference.

Getty Images accused AI of wholesale theft. It’s now an official ChatGPT image partner.

Getty Images has announced a new display agreement with OpenAI that will bring its licensed visual content into ChatGPT. The partnership is notable given Getty’s long-running criticism of AI companies over how training data is sourced, marking an unexp…

I asked ChatGPT what I’d become obsessed with next — and its predictions were surprisingly convincing

A simple ChatGPT prompt turned into a surprisingly accurate analysis of my interests and a convincing prediction of the hobbies I may fall into next
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OpenAI wants an all-knowing personal AI agent for everyone on Earth

OpenAI is framing personal AGI as the mass-market endpoint of its AI race, but it still has to explain price, access, safeguards, and how an all-knowing assistant would work for everyone.

I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks — and the difference surprised me

The iOS app version of ChatGPT has a great hidden feature for choosing how intelligent you want your answer to be.

I asked ChatGPT to turn me into a 1990s action figure — and it remembered things I’d forgotten

I used ChatGPT to create action figures based on different eras of my life — the results felt oddly nostalgic