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March 20, 2026 1:21 PM

OpenAI plans desktop ‘superapp’ to streamline user experience

OpenAI on Thursday confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop "superapp" to simplify user experience. OpenAI President Greg Brockman will temporarily oversee the product overhaul and associated organisational changes, while Chief of Applications Fidji Simo will lead the sales team as the company prepares to market the new app, an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement. "We realised we were spreading our...

February 27, 2026 3:26 PM

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2 after viral success of AI image generation tool

Google on Thursday unveiled a successor to its viral Nano Banana image generation model, touting faster performance as the search-engine behemoth pushes to attract more users to its AI tools. The model, called Nano Banana 2, is being rolled out across products, including the Gemini app, AI Mode and Lens features on Search, and Flow, its AI-powered video tool, the Alphabet-owned company said. The launch is Google's latest in a series of moves that have propelled the company to the forefront of ...

November 13, 2025 1:52 PM

OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20 million anonymized ChatGPT chat logs amid a copyright infringement lawsuit by the New York Times, opens new tab and other news outlets, saying it would expose users' private conversations. The artificial intelligence company argued, opens new tab that turning over the logs would disclose confidential user information and that "99.99%" of the transcripts have nothing to do with the copyrigh...

October 8, 2025 9:32 AM

Anthropic to open first India office in 2026 as demand for AI tools grows

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Alphabet's Google and Amazon, said on Tuesday it will open its first office in India next year, aiming to tap into the country's growing appetite for AI tools. The move comes as AI adoption in India accelerates, fueled by rising enterprise tech spending, a growing pool of skilled talent, and increasing investor interest. India, home to nearly a billion internet users, is becoming a major battleground for global AI players. The Asian cou...

August 27, 2025 1:15 PM

Musk’s lawyers try to stop OpenAI obtaining bid documents from Meta, filing shows

Lawyers for Elon Musk have asked a U.S. judge to block ChatGPT-owner OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta Platforms related to a previous $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's assets, a court filing showed. OpenAI said last week Musk had tried to enlist his rival Mark Zuckerberg in his bid for the AI company earlier this year, but that the Meta boss did not come on board. OpenAI then requested the judge to order Meta to produce documents and communications related to any bid for the company. Met...

August 22, 2025 10:52 AM

ChatGPT maker OpenAI confirms plans to open 1st India office

ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Friday confirmed plans to open its first India office in New Delhi later this year, alongside new data highlighting the rapid adoption of its tools in the country. Opening an office in India reflects OpenAI’s support for the government’s IndiaAI mission and commitment to partnering with the government to build “AI for India, with India,” the company said in a statement. It will also allow OpenAI to better serve its users in India, including the millions of stu...

June 5, 2025 2:58 PM

OpenAI finds more Chinese groups using ChatGPT for malicious purposes

OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday. While the scope and tactics employed by these groups have expanded, the operations detected were generally small in scale and targeted limited audiences, the San Francisco-based startup said. Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022, there have been concerns about the potential consequences of generat...

March 30, 2025 12:38 PM

ChatGPT can be used in sensory evaluation of foods, specifically brownies: study

A recent study suggests that ChatGPT can be utilized in the sensory evaluation of foods, particularly brownies, offering insights that may streamline new product development and even enhance recipes. Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the US examined 15 different brownie recipes, ranging from traditional ingredient combinations to unconventional ones, such as mealworm powder and fish oil. Study author Damir Torrico, an assistant professor in the Department of Food S...

February 22, 2025 3:42 PM

North Korea seen using ChatGPT in AI education

North Korea is apparently using ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service developed by OpenAI of the United States, in its higher education AI studies, according to a media report on Saturday. According to the report from Voice of Korea, a Pyongyang external propaganda outlet, members of an AI research institute at Kim Il Sung University were seen learning ChatGPT and its functionalities, reports Yonhap news agency. Learning material used by the institute explained how ChatGPT...

February 13, 2025 12:20 PM

Elon Musk says Grok 3 in final stages, outperforming all chatbots

Elon Musk said on Thursday his AI chatbot, and ChatGPT challenger, Grok 3, is in the final stages of development and will be released in about a week or two. "Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, so in the tests that we've done thus far, Grok 3 is outperforming anything that's been released, that we're aware of, so that's a good sign," he said in a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai. The billionaire tech mogul founded xAI as a challenger to Microsoft-backed...