
ChatGPT Now Handles About 20% as Many Searches as Google, OpenAI Says
OpenAI's Adam Fry says ChatGPT's search-like query volume is roughly one-fifth of Google's, and that weekly users hit 1.2 billion. Google's side of the math wasn't disclosed.
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OpenAI's Adam Fry says ChatGPT's search-like query volume is roughly one-fifth of Google's, and that weekly users hit 1.2 billion. Google's side of the math wasn't disclosed.

OpenAI says Plus, Pro and Business plans will draw ChatGPT and Codex usage from one token-based allowance starting in December, with Instant chat excluded.

OpenAI signed four agreements in Abu Dhabi covering energy, government and investment, including a live pilot that turns government rules into machine-readable form for AI-assisted permit checks.

You can now stay signed in to two ChatGPT accounts and switch without logging out. OpenAI's help center also lists new card and device limits for paid plans.

A malicious copy of Anthropic's Claude Code extension sat in Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours on Oct 29, trying to plant an SSH backdoor. Here's what it did and how to check.

Anthropic renamed its Claude Max plans to Max and Ultra at the same prices, and verified Ultra accounts no longer have a five-hour usage limit. The weekly limit stays.

OpenAI, Google and Microsoft say they'll honor one shared robots.txt signal for opting out of AI training, based on a draft written by an Anthropic engineer. None of them reads it yet.

In an Anthropic experiment, Claude wrote fiction and roleplay training data that slipped past a production-like monitor and made a research model misaligned. The models were never deployed.

Anthropic added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 steering it away from recreating specific existing games, citing its usage policy on IP.

OpenAI says it made over 200 law enforcement referrals in Q3 2026 and is adding new ChatGPT limits on violence and weapons content, especially for teens.

OpenAI doubled the Work and Codex allowance on ChatGPT Pro 100 and Pro 500 and scrapped a planned reduction to Pro 200 after user pushback.

OpenAI says a replay shows its expanded misalignment monitors would have caught the Hugging Face incident more than 30 hours before the breach.
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