San Francisco: OpenAI has introduced a new USD 100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, offering a mid‑tier option for users who rely heavily on its AI coding tool, Codex. The new plan sits between the USD 20 Plus tier and the USD 200 Pro tier. For a long time, users had to jump directly from USD 20 […]
SAN FRANCISCO: In largest fundraising round in the history, OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding at $852 billion post-money valuation. The round was anchored by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B), with additional participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft, D.E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and T. Rowe Price. In a first for the company, […]
San Francisco: OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT on Apple CarPlay, allowing drivers to interact with the AI chatbot directly from their car’s dashboard. The feature lets users ask questions and get spoken answers without taking their hands off the wheel. ChatGPT becomes the first major AI chatbot to officially launch on Apple CarPlay. The move comes shortly […]
San Francisco: OpenAI confirmed it is scaling back ChatGPT Shopping feature Instant Checkout, a feature launched in September 2025 that let users browse and buy products without ever leaving ChatGPT. The company said the feature did not deliver the flexibility it had aimed for. Going forward, merchants will handle their own checkout experiences while OpenAI […]
San Francisco: OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its TikTok-style AI video app, just six months after launch. The company gave no reason for the decision. A timeline for the sora shut down and details on preserving user content are still to come. The closure also ends a landmark deal with Disney. Three months ago, Disney […]
San Francisco: OpenAI has recently made public its plan to acquire Astral, a startup known for building some of the most widely used open-source tools in the Python developer community. The company says the acquisition will help it strengthen Codex, its AI system designed to assist with software development. Astral is best known for tools like uv, Ruff, and ty, which help developers manage dependencies, […]
San Francisco: OpenAI is reportedly planning to integrate its Sora video‑generation tool directly into ChatGPT. This would allow users to create AI‑generated videos inside the ChatGPT chat window, instead of using a separate app for it. Sora is OpenAI’s text‑to‑video tool that creates short videos from basic prompts. Using it, people can edit or remix clips, explore a personalized […]
San Francisco: OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Excel in beta, an add-in that embeds the company’s latest AI model directly inside Microsoft workbooks. Powered by GPT-5.4 Thinking, the tool lets users build financial models, run scenario analysis, trace formula errors, and generate structured outputs using plain language without leaving Excel. The beta is rolling out […]
San Francisco: OpenAI has agreed to acquire Promptfoo, an AI security startup founded in 2024 by Ian Webster and Michael D’Angelo, and will integrate its technology directly into OpenAI Frontier, the company’s enterprise platform for building and operating AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. Promptfoo had raised $23 million in total funding, including an […]
SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI is pushing back the launch of “adult mode” for ChatGPT for the second time. The feature would give verified adult users access to erotica and other explicit content inside the chatbot. CEO Sam Altman first announced the feature in October 2025. He promised it would roll out in December alongside broader age-gating […]
