Leaked details suggest that OpenAI's mysterious hardware project with legendary designer Jony Ive is a pen-style device codenamed "Gumdrop." The gadget aims to serve as a "third core device" that handles voice and handwriting tasks without the distractions of a traditional screen.
OpenAI has introduced a personalized "Year in Review" feature for ChatGPT users, providing data on their most frequent prompts, topics, and interactions throughout 2025. The tool follows the format of popular social media summaries but has received mixed feedback regarding the accuracy and categorization of its automated insights.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued an internal code red alert, directing teams to pause work on ads, shopping features, health agents, and the Pulse personal assistant to focus entirely on making ChatGPT faster, more reliable, and capable of handling a wider range of questions. The move comes as Google’s Gemini 3 model gains ground on benchmarks and user metrics, three years after ChatGPT’s launch prompted Google’s own code red response.
A new beta build of the ChatGPT Android app includes references to ad features, suggesting that OpenAI is working on an advertising layer for its chatbot. The code strings appear soon after reports that the company is exploring ad formats that may use ChatGPT’s memory and past chats for targeting, despite earlier public comments from CEO Sam Altman that described ads as a last resort.
Offering ChatGPT for free to teachers is not a goodwill move aimed at education alone. It is a structural attempt to shape how AI enters classrooms, how teachers retain authority over its use, and how schools avoid fragmented, unsupervised adoption. The decision reflects constraints around trust, misuse, training load, and institutional inertia rather than a simple push for scale.
OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT group chats worldwide, allowing up to twenty people to collaborate with the AI in a shared conversation while keeping personal data and memories separate.
OpenAI has introduced GPT 5.1 as an updated default model family in ChatGPT, combining GPT 5.1 Instant and GPT 5.1 Thinking and using adaptive reasoning to select response depth. The rollout starts with paid tiers and expands to other users, while new personality controls allow tone changes during an active conversation.
OpenAI has added a feature that allows users to interrupt ChatGPT mid-response and adjust the prompt without restarting the entire conversation. The change offers a more practical way to guide long, detailed answers and reduces wasted time when the model takes several minutes to respond.











