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  By Sidra Salman · October 25, 2026 Texas just became the tenth US state to sue OpenAI — and this one goes further than the rest. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a 67-page lawsuit on Friday, October 23, 2026, against both the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, personally. If Texas wins, ChatGPT could be barred for minors in the state, and no new OpenAI model could reach Texas users until a court-approved independent evaluator signs off on it. That last demand is the one to watch. No other state has asked a court to put a third-party gatekeeper between OpenAI and its users. Here's what Texas actually filed, how it differs from the lawsuits that came before it, and what it could mean for the millions of people who use ChatGPT every day. What Texas filed Paxton filed the case in Collin County District Court under two Texas laws: the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the state's main consumer-protection statute, and the SCOPE Act, a newer law that requires digital services to ver...

By Sidra Salman · October 23, 2026 On Thursday, Uber gave ChatGPT Work — OpenAI's enterprise AI agent — to its entire global workforce of roughly 30,000 people. Not a pilot group. Not one department. Everybody. I cover AI tools for a living, and this one is different. A 30x jump — from a 1,000-person pilot earlier this year to the full company — tells you where enterprise AI is actually heading. Here's what happened, what Work mode does in a corporate setting, and what it means for the rest of us. What ChatGPT Work actually does inside a company Quick context, since I covered the consumer side on October 17: ChatGPT's new Chrome extension has a "Work" mode that acts on your browser. The Uber deal is the enterprise twin of that idea. ChatGPT Work is an agent built inside ChatGPT Enterprise, designed for jobs too complicated for a normal chat prompt. According to OpenAI's announcement, it can: Act across your apps and files — at Uber, that mea...

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT something it never had before: eyes on your browser tabs. The company announced on October 15 that its ChatGPT extension for Chrome can now read across your open tabs, and in a new "Work mode" it can act on them — filling out forms, sending messages, downloading files, and even tidying up a messy tab bar. Here's what changed, what it can actually do, and the privacy trade-off you should know about before you install it. What the ChatGPT Chrome Extension Can Do Now The update splits the extension's powers into two modes. In Chat mode , ChatGPT can read multiple open tabs at once and answer questions that span all of them. OpenAI's demo showed a user with three sofa listings open in separate tabs asking for a comparison by dimensions, material, delivery time, and return policy — no copy-pasting required. In Work mode , it goes further and actually controls your tabs. OpenAI lists example prompts like: "Put the vendors in these tabs i...

Picking the best AI chatbot in 2026 should be easy by now, but honestly, it's messier than ever. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot have all changed pricing, launched new models, and reshuffled features this year. I've spent the last few weeks testing all four side by side on real daily work — writing, coding, research, the boring stuff that actually matters — and this is my honest breakdown of which one deserves your money (or your free-tier loyalty). The Quick Verdict If you're in a hurry, here it is: ChatGPT — the best all-rounder. Strongest ecosystem, best voice mode, most useful extras. $0 free; $20/month Plus. Claude — the best for writing and coding. Most natural prose, best code explanations, doesn't train on your chats by default. $0 free; $20/month Pro. Gemini — the best free tier and b...

Sam Altman took the stage at OpenAI's annual developer conference on Tuesday with a lot to prove — and a lot he clearly didn't want to talk about. The day before, his company had delayed the GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns from its own researchers. At DevDay, he didn't mention Astra. Not once. What he did announce: a new "always-on" AI agent called Dots , an upgraded model called GPT-6.1 Sol , and a premium speed tier called Ultrafast . Here's what each actually means — and what the silence on Astra tells us. Dots: An AI Helper "That Always Has Your Back" The headline was Dots, which Altman described as a "remarkably capable, always-on" AI agent designed to complete ongoing tasks proactively. His pitch leaned on nostalgia: "Like an AI helper that always has your back, inspired by the cool versions of what we all watched in movies growing up." — Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO So what does "always-on" and ...

OpenAI hit pause on one of its most anticipated releases this week. On Monday, October 12, 2026, the company told reporters it was delaying GPT-6.1 Astra , a new AI model that had been generating buzz among developers and AI watchers, because its own researchers raised security concerns. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, lands at a strange and crowded moment for the company — and honestly, it raises more questions than it answers. What Actually Happened According to OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, the model simply "didn't quite meet the bar." That sounds vague, but she gave a little more color: the new version had become noticeably more persistent at completing tasks, which sounds great on paper, but that same persistence made it harder to control. Jain said OpenAI needed to balance the new capability against the risk of unauthorized behavior . "We have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment." — Saachi ...

OpenAI just published a striking number: weekly active use of its AI agents among small and medium-sized businesses in the European Union grew more than eightfold between early May and early October 2026. And by the end of September, those agents were producing over half of all the output generated through OpenAI's business platforms in the EU. The figures come from a new report by OpenAI's economic research team, published October 14 and titled Europe's Agentic Opportunity . The analysis is based on real usage data from ChatGPT Enterprise and Business accounts — not surveys, but measured token output. And while the headline is growth, the report's deeper message is a warning: a small group of leading firms is pulling far ahead, and Europe risks falling behind the rest of the world. Here is what the report found, and what it actually means if you run a small business. The headline numbers The report's core metric is the "agentic share" — the perc...

On Wednesday, October 14, 2026, the attorneys general of eight states filed separate lawsuits against the ChatGPT maker, accusing it of marketing a chatbot that endangers children while telling parents it is safe. Four of the attorneys general — from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and West Virginia — announced their suits together at a press conference in Des Moines. The other four — Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, and Montana — filed separately in their own state courts. Each state is suing under its own consumer protection laws, which is what makes this a coordinated strike rather than a single joint case. Here is what the states are alleging, what OpenAI says in response, and what could actually change. Which states are suing OpenAI? The eight states bringing suit are Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, and Montana . The group is bipartisan, and legal analysts are calling it the most significant coordinated state action against an...