ChatGPT

WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform

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Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Khosla Ventures-backed Luzia, and General Catalyst-backed Poke. The company has added a new section to address “AI providers” in its business API terms, focusing on […]

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ChatGPT’s mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use, analysis shows

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ChatGPT’s mobile app growth may have hit its peak, according to a new analysis of download trends and daily active users provided by the third-party app intelligence Apptopia. Its estimates indicate that new user growth, measured by percentage changes in new global downloads, slowed after April. In addition, global daily active user growth has stopped

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Kayak launches an ‘AI Mode’ for travel questions, search, and bookings

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Travel search engine Kayak will now allow users to research trips ahead of booking using AI. The company this week launched an “AI Mode” feature that lets users ask travel-related questions as well as compare and book flights, hotels, and cars, through an AI chatbot integrated on the company’s website. The feature is currently available

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday the company will soon relax some of ChatGPT’s safety restrictions, allowing users to make the chatbot’s responses friendlier or more “human-like,” and for “verified adults” to engage in erotic conversations. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental

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You’ll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT

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Walmart announced on Tuesday a new partnership with OpenAI that will allow consumers to shop Walmart’s products via the AI chatbot, including things like groceries (not fresh food), household essentials, and more, and then instantly check out. The agentic shopping feature will also allow Sam’s Club members to plan meals and restock essentials while also

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You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT. Here’s how to do it

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Earlier this week, OpenAI launched a way for developers to build apps within ChatGPT, allowing users to prompt the assistant to perform tasks and answer questions directly related to the participating apps.  Several companies have launched their interactive experiences, including Spotify, allowing listeners to ask ChatGPT to create playlists, recommend songs, and more.  When you

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OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system

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When Nick Turley joined OpenAI in 2022 as the head of ChatGPT, he was tasked with commercializing the company’s research. He has made great strides toward that goal, growing the product to 800 million weekly active users. Now, Turley wants to take an even bigger swing: transforming ChatGPT into a new type of operating system

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