Unlocking ChatGPT: 13 Unexpected Applications You Should Try
Think ChatGPT is only good for writing? These 13 everyday uses show how it can help you plan, learn, organize and solve problems.
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Think ChatGPT is only good for writing? These 13 everyday uses show how it can help you plan, learn, organize and solve problems.
In celebration of World UFO Day, I asked ChatGPT to give me a scenario where aliens finally make contact with us — and its prediction was surprisingly plausible.
Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.
Michael Lines, 34, said in the complaint filed in state court in San Francisco that conversations he had with ChatGPT last year escalated a manic episode he experienced into a weeks-long delusion, ultimately pushing him to attempt suicide. His lawsuit argues that OpenAI developed a product that pos
The latest ChatGPT app/Claude “Connector” welcomes Norton’s scam detector to both AI tools—here’s a list of prompts you can use to scan emails, texts and more.
Sustained engagement and habitual use are becoming key metrics for companies as they race to build AI assistants that consumers use as part of their daily workflows and return to consistently.
The maker of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN says its second-generation chatbot is never trained on user data.
Square is launching a new ChatGPT app and Claude plugin, enabling consumers to discover restaurants and seamlessly place orders directly within these AI platforms — and allowing restaurants, in turn, to accept orders from users and their AI agents without any technical capabilities. Even more helpfu
ChatGPT has evolved far beyond a simple chatbot. Here are 11 powerful features in 2026 that can help you research, organize, generate images and save time.
June 30, 2026: Personal finance is now available to ChatGPT Plus customers in the U.S., expanding the feature from OpenAI’s $100/month plan to the $20/month version. Original story from last month is below. OpenAI is catching up with some competitors and offering new personal finance features inside
New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.
Three chatbots. Same price of $20 for their subscriptions. The convergence is almost funny considering how different the offerings are. The same price does not mean the same product. I paid for all three and ran the same work through each. They are not interchangeable as you’ll soon find out. Pick w
Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his
Before splurging on something expensive, I mention what item it is to ChatGPT along with one of my five go-to prompts—they save me time and money every time.
Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer base and revenue have grown roughly 75 percent since January, based on Indagari’s analysis of billions
ChatGPT users may notice something different about the AI chatbot experience over the next few days. That’s because OpenAI is tweaking how its most-used model works.
Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXperience employees worldwide. The DX divis
L’Oréal has announced a collaboration with OpenAI that will bring Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature into ChatGPT. The announcement was made at VivaTech 2026. The partnership covers consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, research, and internal content
Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, marking one of OpenAI’s largest enterprise AI rollouts.
Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.