Stories about ChatGPT

OpenAI is starting to show ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India, indicating the company is seeking new revenue streams. India is one of the largest markets for ChatGPT, with over 100 million active users. The move may impact user experience in India.

Students who used ChatGPT and received critical thinking training showed better answers and broader thinking. A randomized study of over 1,000 students found that ChatGPT and critical thinking training improved student performance and originality on a real-world university assignment.

OpenAI has released a report researching how students and educators use ChatGPT for continuous learning, noting that ChatGPT can provide students with support outside of the classroom. This report highlights the potential of artificial intelligence in the field of education, especially in promoting continuous learning.

OpenAI discovered and disrupted a secret Russian influence operation that used ChatGPT to generate social media posts promoting pro-Kremlin narratives. The operation accessed the platform via Russian VPNs and posted German-language content on Telegram criticizing the EU and German government. Although the operation's impact was limited, OpenAI warned that its infrastructure could be scaled up.

Taiwan-based cybersecurity firm TeamT5 has warned that state-backed Chinese hackers have more than doubled their cyberattacks using AI tools such as DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Claude Code. Hackers are using these tools to write exploit code and scan networks. UK research shows that open-source models are rapidly catching up in terms of web capabilities.

Pew Research Center analyzed nearly 500,000 English-language web pages and found that more than a third of them have shown characteristics of machine-written text since the release of ChatGPT, with commercial websites being ten times more likely to contain AI-generated content than .edu or .gov domains.