The 'Cancel ChatGPT' movement has gone mainstream following OpenAI's deal with the U.S. Department of Defense. Anthropic's refusal to apply Claude to mass surveillance or autonomous weapons has driven a wave of user migration from ChatGPT to Claude.
OpenAI closed a $110B round led by Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). ChatGPT now reaches 900 million weekly active users and 50 million paying subscribers.
OpenAI is finalizing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft. The deal would value the AI company at over $850 billion—a record for any private tech company.
OpenAI is finalizing a record-breaking $100B+ funding round valuing the company at over $850B. Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft are among the key investors, marking the largest private tech fundraise in history.
OpenAI announced GPT-5 on 2025-08-07 for both ChatGPT and API usage. The launch highlights include a reported 45% hallucination reduction vs GPT-4o and major benchmark gains such as HealthBench Hard 44.6.
On February 12, 2026, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT deep research, an agentic workflow designed to run multi-step web investigations and produce citation-backed reports. The release targets higher-value knowledge work where traceable evidence matters as much as speed.
OpenAI reports that, across more than one million ChatGPT conversations, the share of difficult interactions exceeding a human baseline increased roughly fourfold from September 2024 to January 2026. The company also shows large gains in case-interview and puzzle-style open tasks.
OpenAI said on January 29, 2026 that ChatGPT would stop offering GPT-4o and older model options from February 13, 2026. GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, and o4-mini are being replaced by GPT-5, GPT-5 thinking, and o5-mini respectively.
OpenAI added Lockdown Mode and standardized Elevated Risk labels to reduce prompt-injection-related exposure in ChatGPT products. The launch starts with enterprise-focused plans and gives admins tighter control over high-risk capabilities.
OpenAI announced on February 9 that it's testing ads in ChatGPT for Free and Go tier users in the US. Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers remain ad-free.
Major U.S. grocery chain Albertsons joined OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising pilot. The test explores conversational AI ad formats for retail, signaling growing industry interest in AI-native advertising.
Anthropic's Super Bowl ad declares "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude," directly challenging OpenAI's plan to insert ads into ChatGPT. The clash signals a new competitive phase in the AI industry.