OpenAI is forecasting a major shift in the next five years around who it gets most of its computing power from, The Information reported on Friday. By

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has unveiled the company's strategy for its next GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models, among other

OpenAI recently banned several accounts that had been using ChatGPT to write sales pitches and debug code for a suspected social media surveillance tool that likely originated in China, the company said — part of a broader effort by the AI startup to police malicious uses of its powerful AI models.

OpenAI released a report today detailing numerous examples of how the company has disrupted malicious uses of its AI models, including banning some accounts for how they’re using ChatGPT. In two of the case studies,

OpenAI boasts that it has reached 400 million weekly active users on services such as ChatGPT and others. More details here.

Though it might have seemed like OpenAI was on the ropes between its recent weirdness with Microsoft and the disruptive arrival of DeepSeek, CNBC reports that the firm behind ChatGPT now has 400 million weekly active users — up 100 million from last December.

DeepSeek may've stolen some of ChatGPT's thunder, but OpenAI's chief operating officer says ChatGPT is growing due to word of mouth.