After a week of AI-written emails, I noticed something unsettling — I didn’t quite sound like myself anymore.
It’s only the latest of several side project that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
ChatGPT’s new visual shopping upgrade makes product discovery feel more like browsing with a helpful guide.
ChatGPT’s proposed “adult mode” is now on indefinite hold, with OpenAI prioritizing core tools instead. The company says it needs more research on risks like emotional dependency and explicit content.
I asked a researcher why using AI can sometimes make us feel weird, and what she said surprised me.

OpenAI has paused plans to release a sexualized “adult mode” for ChatGPT, in its latest move to refocus on the company’s core products. According to The Financial Times, the erotic chatbot has been shelved “indefinitely” after facing pushback from employees and investors due to the problematic and harmful effects sexualized AI content can have on […]

Less than a week into his tenure as Disney’s newly appointed CEO, Josh D’Amaro, is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company’s future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney […]
ChatGPT gets real-time weather support through a new AccuWeather app, letting users check forecasts, alerts, and live conditions directly within conversations.
Sam Altman says AI could help cure diseases — but warns it will also create serious new threats that no single company can control.
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OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT‘s shopping capabilities, and it’s now making it easier to browse Shopify-powered brand stores and buy products through a more flexible checkout experience. The update builds on the company’s push into “agentic commerce,” aim…