
OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search
OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles a fifth of Google's search volume, and in the same breath says ads are working. That pairing tells us where AI search is headed.
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OpenAI says ChatGPT now handles a fifth of Google's search volume, and in the same breath says ads are working. That pairing tells us where AI search is headed.

OpenAI's new word for its data centers is a tell. The company knows the politics of AI infrastructure are turning, and a softer name won't change what local residents actually push back on.

On Election Day, the chatbots people trust for quick answers are still getting deadlines, candidates and sources wrong. For anything that decides how you vote, they shouldn't be the last word.

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OpenAI just hired the executive who steered Uber's reputation through its hardest years, a sign the company expects its biggest fights to be about trust, not technology.
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OpenAI is turning its own models and an outside firm loose on its defenses again, and the approach is sound, though the post is long on intent and short on measurable results.

OpenAI's much bigger bug bounties are a smart, overdue bet on outside researchers, and the bonus structure rewards the careful reports that actually get bugs fixed.

OpenAI rebuilt the server under its monorepo because coding agents broke the old one, and the bigger story is what agent-scale software output does to shared infrastructure.

OpenAI wants its future campuses to act like a pressure valve for the grid, and the Georgia deal gives us real numbers to hold it to, not just a promise.

Merging Chat and Work in ChatGPT is a welcome cleanup, but the quieter change, a shared token pool with Codex, is the part heavy users will notice first.