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ChatGPT refuses to be friendzoned

The chatbot’s impending ‘adult mode’ shows how old human impulses still drive new technology

The ChatGPT creator set off the modern AI boom, but it has yet to show a profit, one of the main indicators for investors concerned about a bubble in the industry.

OpenAI sees better margins on business sales: report

Most people use ChatGPT’s free version

ChatGPT adoption on campus has happened quickly as students and faculty used it more than 14 million times in September.

OpenAI inks deals with US colleges, seizing early lead in education market

The company has sold more than 700,000 ChatGPT licences to about 35 public universities

The scepticism surrounding OpenAI can be dated to August, when it unveiled GPT-5 to mixed reactions.

OpenAI goes from stock market saviour to burden as AI risks mount

A basket of companies connected to the maker of ChatGPT has gained 74% in 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that other projects would now be delayed, including a plan to introduce advertising to the chatbot.

OpenAI declares ChatGPT ‘code red’ over stiff competition: report

CEO Altman says resources must be devoted to fending off the new competition to its chatbot

Google has plenty of resources that OpenAI doesn’t: a corpus of ready data to train and refine AI models; flowing profits; and its own computing infrastructure.

Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’

Several tech companies have plotted ways to develop their own semiconductors or forge ties that make them less reliant on Nvidia’s bestsellers

Alibaba will gradually add agentic AI features to support online shopping – spanning platforms including its marquee Taobao marketplace – in the coming months.

Alibaba’s main AI app debuts strongly in effort to rival ChatGPT

The Chinese e-commerce leader’s Qwen is among the faster risers, particularly in China

Cloudflare has experienced several outages over the past few years.

Cloudflare resolves global outage that disrupted ChatGPT, X

The cause of the outage was a configuration file that is automatically generated to manage threat traffic

Elon Musk’s social media platform X and startup xAI can move forward for now with their lawsuit, a preliminary victory for the billionaire entrepreneur in a battle over artificial intelligence dominance.

Apple and OpenAI must face X Corp’s lawsuit for now, US judge rules

APPLE Inc and ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Thursday failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X Corp accusing them of conspiring to monopolise markets for smartphones and gener...

The Qwen revamp marks one of Alibaba’s biggest moves so far to try and wring revenue from consumer-facing services.

Alibaba prepares major revamp of flagship AI app to rival ChatGPT

The end goal is to try and make Qwen a fully functioning AI agent