India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of the largest OpenAI markets in the world, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-sponsored AI summit. On Sunday, Altman outlined the growing adoption of ChatGPT in India in an article published in India’s English-language newspaper Times of India, as OpenAI prepares … Read more
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI faces upheavals of its own, from disbanding its mission alignment team to firing a policy manager who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch TechCrunch Equity podcast … Read more
OpenAI has disbanded a team focused on, as the company described itself, ensuring that its AI systems are “secure, trustworthy and consistently aligned with human values.” At the same time, the former team leader was given the new role of “Chief Futurologist” of the company. OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that team members have now been … Read more
OpenAI has officially launched its advertising pilot in ChatGPT, giving us a better idea of the kinds of products we might see stuffed under our AI chatbot conversations. Several companies have announced plans to run ads in ChatGPT — placements that will reportedly cost them a pretty penny — from major retailers like Target to … Read more
Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of gender discrimination, the Wall Street Journal reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the paper. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email … Read more
Less than a month after its initial announcement, ChatGPT began running ads for users on its free and Go tiers. For now, ads will only be shown to users 18 and older in the US. The move makes ChatGPT the first major AI chatbot to introduce advertising. Ads will now appear in your ChatGPT conversations … Read more
ChatGPT users may soon start seeing ads in their chats, as OpenAI announced on Monday that it is officially starting to test ads on its AI platform. They will appear as labeled “sponsored” links at the bottom of ChatGPT’s answers, but OpenAI says the ads “do not affect the answers ChatGPT gives you.” Currently, ads … Read more
ChatGPT users in the US who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today, according to OpenAI. Ads will be limited to Free and Go subscription levels and will be shown to logged in adult users. OpenAI has no plans to serve ads to minors, and the company … Read more
OpenAI president Greg Brockman commented on X with a tweet calling the story “fake news” and OpenAI spokesperson Lindsay McCallum Rémy wrote “this is completely false”. It was remarkably convenient to see that the account that “found” the ad was brand new. The “wineheda” Reddit account behind the original post has now been deleted, but … Read more
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent-based coding tool offered to software developers. OpenAI also released a new Codex supercharger model today: the GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that can only “write and review code” to one that can do “nearly everything that developers and computing professionals do, … Read more