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OpenAI fired safety executive Ryan Beiermeister after she opposed AI erotica
“OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives on the grounds of sexual discrimination after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI Erotica in its ChatGPT product. The fast-growing artificial intelligence company fired the executiv…”
Luria: OpenAI is a negative gross margin business
“Open AI is a negative gross margin business. They claim they're not, but they are right. Which is to say it costs them more to answer your chat GPT question than they make revenue from you.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI has $1.4T in financial obligations and 30GW compute commitments
“OpenAI has 1.4 trillion worth of financial obligation. And it's made commitments to use 30 gigawatts of data center capacity. But OpenAI's revenue is going to be thirteen billion this year, and we already have eight hundred million people using ChatGPT.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Projects 100x Revenue Surge by 2029 Driven by ChatGPT
“Chat GPT is what open AI expects to lead its revenue which it expects to increase, it expects revenue, its revenue to increase a hundred fold by 20, 29. And the bulk of that revenue is going to be coming from ChatGPT according to OpenAI's projections”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI Averaged 905M WAU, Missing 1B Year-End Target
“OpenAI's weekly active users for the quarter averaged about nine hundred five million users. Although the company hit about nine hundred twenty million weekly active users in February, the lower average figure for the quarter implies that usage during the rest…”
OpenAI missed internal goal of 1 billion ChatGPT users by 2025
“OpenAI, Had a goal to hit a billion ChatGPT users by the end of the year in 2025. It missed it.”
Alex Kantrowitz cites Apptopia data showing consumer AI app growth declining
“Daily active user growth across all AI, AI apps. So that includes perplexity and Claude and the Gemini's of the world. ChatGPT, growth is not just tailing off, it's down. So you can see that, you know, while like the space is growing overall the growth is, is …”
Brockman: ChatGPT Image Generation Uses GPT Architecture, Not Diffusion Models
“The reason we're able to do that is because it's not actually on the world model, like diffusion model tech, tech branch. It's actually based on the GPT architecture, and so there, even though it's a different data distribution, the actual core technology at t…”
Nvidia CEO calls OpenClaw the biggest milestone since ChatGPT
“Jensen Wong, the NVIDIA CEO, happens to be driving the whole thing. Four and a half trillion dollar company, which is crazy. Just said that OpenClaw is the most important thing after ChatGPT.”
Adler: OpenAI Left Delusion-Detection Safety Classifiers Undeployed on Shelf
“My concern with the relationships is less so the relationships themselves and more that open AI had a bunch of important safety tooling to make this less harmful that they left on the shelf. So for example, they had classifiers to tell when users were really s…”
OpenAI Plans to Test Ads Inside ChatGPT
“OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world's most widely used AI products.”
OpenAI Plans to Launch ChatGPT Adult Mode in Q1 2026
“This is from Wired. Fiji on the call said the company now plans to roll out its adult mode in the first quarter of twenty-twenty-six. Altman had previously indicated users over 18 would be allowed to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT.”
Roy: Google is indexing and searching shared ChatGPT conversations
“Apparently Google is now indexing shared to chat GPT conversations and they're searchable”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI reaches $12B annualized revenue and 700M ChatGPT weekly users
“OpenAI hits twelve billion in annualized revenue, breaks seven hundred million ChatGPT weekly active users. This is from Bloomberg. They roughly doubled their revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching twelve billion in annualized revenue says Ope…”
Kantrowitz: MIT Study Found ChatGPT Users Showed Lowest Brain Engagement
“The study divided 54 subjects, 18 to thirty-nine-year-olds,
From the Boston area into three groups and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google search engine, and nothing at all.
Researchers used an EEG.
I guess that's, yeah,
it's …”
Kantrowitz: Judge orders OpenAI to preserve ChatGPT chats for NYT lawsuit
“The New York Times is telling OpenAI, has gotten a judge to rule in favor of this position, that OpenAI has to preserve its chats, because people who are using OpenAI's ChatGPT to, ah, go around the New York Times paywall, ah, may delete those chats. And there…”
Roy: Claude-Salesforce Integrations Were Already Possible Before Official ClaudeForce Launch
“I don't want to say it's a complete non-event, but you could already do this in Salesforce and Claude. At Rider, where I work, people connect to Salesforce and run all types of queries. It's actually one of the most valuable things I've found for my day-to-day…”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached One Billion Active Users
“ChatGPT, according to third parties, has recently hit one billion active users.”
Siegler: OpenAI's Atlas Browser Refuses to Summarize New York Times Articles
“If you go to a New York times story in Atlas and you say within the Atlas native chat GPT that's baked into it. If you say like summarize this page, it refuses to do it because they don't have an agreement on the content.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI is developing a coding, ChatGPT, and browser super app
“They're making this super app, which is going to combine coding and chat CPT and a browser.”
OpenAI plans desktop superapp unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and browser
“OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform codex, and browser into a desktop super app, a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and business customers.”
ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x
“If you look at the gap between them and the number two Gemini on web, it's about still two and a half, three X. The gap between them and something like a Claude is closer to, like, 30 X. So even though a lot of these other apps are getting more attention, Chat…”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT On Track for One Billion Users by Late March
“Definitely on track for a billion by mid, mid to late March.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Mobile Market Share Fell to 45.3% in January 2026
“OpenAI's, ChatGPT's market share has dropped from 69% in January, this is according to Apptopia, from 69% in January, twenty-twenty-five to 45.3% in January, 26. Now it is growing, but in that same time, ah, let's see, Gemini has gone from 14.7% chatbot market…”
Hassabis: Google Has No Immediate Plans for Ads in Gemini
“He said we have no plan at no plans at the moment to do ads. If you're talking about the Gemini app specifically, I think we're obviously going to watch very carefully the outcome of what ChatGPT is saying they're going to do. I think that has to be handled ve…”
Altman: OpenAI API business grew faster than ChatGPT in 2025
“He also said that the API business grew faster this year than ChatGPT, which was surprising to me, but I guess it grew off of a much lower base.”
Kantrowitz: Meta to cut off ChatGPT access on WhatsApp next year
“Meta said Saturday it would cut off access to non-meta chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT on WhatsApp beginning next year.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Run-Rate Revenue Tops $12 Billion
“ChatGPT has continued its epic rise to north of twelve billion dollars in run rate revenue.”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI tracks $13B revenue in 2025, $120B losses by 2029
“Yes, ChatGPT or OpenAI is going to bring in thirteen billion this year. At least it's on, on track to do that, but it's going to lose, according to reports, a hundred and twenty billion by twenty-twenty-nine.”
ChatGPT will stay on Azure despite OpenAI's external infrastructure partnerships
“Is ChatGPT, by the way, going to stay on Azure, even though OpenAI is making these partnerships with NVIDIA and Oracle?
[2466] Scott Guthrie: Yes.”
Roy: AI stocks drove 75% of S&P returns since ChatGPT launch
“AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P returns, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending growth since ChatGPT launched in November, twenty-twenty-two.”
Kantrowitz: Coding is 4.2% of ChatGPT messages versus 33% for Claude
“Another interesting stat, they say four, 4.2% of chat GPT messages are related to computer programming compared to 33% of work-related Claude conversations.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Pacing to Hit 800M to 900M Weekly Users in 2025
“This year, it's on track to hit eight hundred million weekly users by the end of the year, maybe even more, maybe nine hundred million.”
ChatGPT traffic grew 13% month-over-month while other top websites declined
“If you look at the traffic change month over month, Google, at YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, all going down. ChatGPT up, 13% month over month. Then everything else that follows, X, WhatsApp, Wikipedia, Reddit, Yahoo Japan, All going down. And so, ChatGPT stand…”
Kantrowitz: Meta AI has 600M users compared to OpenAI's 400M
“And I was just speaking with Jan LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Meta, and he said there's Six hundred million people using their AI assistant within their apps compared to four hundred million of open AI's chat GPT.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Reached 300M Users Following Advanced Voice Announcement
“They went from a hundred million to three hundred million users. They went from two billion web visits in a month to four billion after flatlining for a while.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT hit 3.7B monthly visits in late 2024, dusting Bing
“Bing had 1.5 billion per month in February, 20, 24. It had all of 1.85 billion per month in October, 20, 24. You look at ChatGPT starts with 1.6 billion and now it has 3.7 billion per month. So it's left Bing in the dust. And by God, I mean, the rest that you …”
Kantrowitz: DeepSeek overnight captured one-third of ChatGPT's daily traffic
“You see last week, so January, 28th, chat GPT at 139.3 web and mobile visits. Deep seek at 49 million. So it cut About, like, further than any other company has been able to cut into the lead of OpenAI, and it had about a third of the traffic that ChatGPT took…”
Kantrowitz: OpenAI has 300M ChatGPT users but loses billions annually
“We have OpenAI who has ChatGPT with three hundred million users, which is okay. But still losing billions a year to run that thing.”
Clark: US and UK AI Safety Institutes Are Testing Frontier AI Systems
“The US and UK are not, don't have regulatory powers. Will they be third parties that test out systems like Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini for national security risks and hold companies accountable to them? Yes. Like I'm in discussion with them today.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users; 25% ask health questions.
“ChatGPT has eight hundred million users weekly users fully one fourth of them are using ChatGPT for health questions already.”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT will reach one billion users by April 2026
“ChatGPT hits a billion users, and we know it's at eight hundred million now. I expect that it will hit a billion by April next year at the latest, and I think that's a real moment, I think, for AI and OpenAI in general.”
Altman: ChatGPT was not intended to be a product at launch
“It looks better now, but it is broadly similar to when it was put up as like a research preview. It was not even meant to be a product.”
Luria: ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users
“And they came out with a great consumer product that we now know as ChadGPT and now has eight hundred million weekly active users and is driven the fastest growth of any startup ever.”
Kantrowitz: Kevin Weil Memo Targeted 1 Billion ChatGPT WAU
“In 2024, a long memo from Kevin Wheel, a former Meta executive who was then serving as the chief product officer, caused a bit of a stir shortly after he joined. In the document, Wheel, who was known at Meta for his lengthy missives, detailed his goal of getti…”
Kantrowitz: ChatGPT Has 800 Million Weekly Active Users
“Chat, I mean, OpenAI is very aware that ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time. Eight hundred million weekly active users, right?”