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- ChatGPT adds iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins on web, desktop, and iOS
OpenAI’s ChatGPT release notes say iCloud users can connect Mail and Calendar to ChatGPT to find emails, catch up on an inbox, check a schedule, and update calendar events. The plugins are available on all ChatGPT plans on the web, desktop app, and iOS.
- OpenAI publishes ChatGPT work-usage Signals across 165 activities
OpenAI published ChatGPT’s expanding world of work, an OpenAI Signals report on how people use ChatGPT for work across 165 work activities in nearly 100 countries, and how that usage changes over time.
- Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees with OpenAI
Uber is expanding ChatGPT Work from a 1,000-person pilot to more than 30,000 employees company-wide. The agentic ChatGPT Enterprise workspace connects tools such as Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar and Slack, and Uber will use GPT-6.1 Sol as the default model alongside multimodal features. Uber's CTO and OpenAI's Greg Brockman both framed the rollout as putting frontier agents into everyday knowledge work.
- OpenAI explains how it built ChatGPT's LLM-powered ad stack to keep ads separate from answers
OpenAI describes the LLM-powered ad system behind ChatGPT Ads, built to understand conversational intent, keep ads separate from ChatGPT's answers and deliver relevant ads at scale.
- ChatGPT Ads expands to 26 new countries, and OpenAI says more than 100,000 advertisers have used the platform
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 26 more countries and that over 100,000 advertisers, from local businesses to global brands, have used it to reach people as they explore, compare and decide what to buy in ChatGPT.
- ChatGPT adds team tasks to automate recurring engineering work such as weekly status updates
OpenAI says teams can now automate recurring engineering work with team tasks in ChatGPT, such as compiling what shipped and what is blocked every Friday. Teammates can review the results and change what the next update covers.
- ChatGPT lets users lock chats behind a PIN, Face ID or Touch ID, per TechCrunch
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now lock conversations with a four-digit PIN, or with Face ID or Touch ID on supported devices, TechCrunch reports. Locked chats move to a separate Locked Chats section, away from regular history, pinned chats and search, and with Memory on they share their own separate memory. OpenAI notes that locking does not add end-to-end encryption, change how long chats are kept, or remove what ChatGPT remembered before a chat was locked.
- ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can read open tabs and let ChatGPT Work control the browser, per The Verge
With OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser gone, The Verge reports the ChatGPT Chrome extension now lets ChatGPT view open tabs when Chrome is tagged in the web or desktop app, including a demo that compares several shopping tabs. The sidebar update brings full Chat or Work history onto the current page, and ChatGPT Work can control Chrome for tasks such as sending messages, filling forms or downloading files, similar to Gemini auto browse, plus organize or group tabs.
- OpenAI says Codex and ChatGPT Work now produce more than half of output tokens for its EU enterprise customers
A new OpenAI Economic Research report says Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens among ChatGPT Enterprise customers in its EU sample, and that weekly active users of the two tools at EU businesses with 200 or fewer users grew more than eightfold since May 2026. The agentic share of output tokens ranged from 22% in Slovenia to 85% in Lithuania. In September, the top 10% of EU firms by output tokens per active user generated more than four times as many tokens per user as typical EU firms, but frontier firms outside the EU generated more than twice as many as EU frontier firms, and EU firms made up only 10% of frontier firms globally.
- OpenAI shows how annotations with WebMCP give agents more context in ChatGPT's browser
OpenAI Developers shared a demo by @kagigz showing custom annotation controls and suggested prompts paired with WebMCP. OpenAI says the combination gives agents more context to act on, letting users edit scenes and update expenses in ChatGPT's browser.
- ChatGPT now lets users create and text their dot from the iOS and Android app
OpenAI says users can now create their dot and text it entirely from the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android, after many had created dots on desktop and web. Codex lead @thsottiaux shared it as the Day 5 dots update.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT dots can now start work in Codex and follow up on existing Codex threads
OpenAI's update page says a dot can now start work in Codex and follow up on existing threads. It can search across ChatGPT conversations, use context from existing Codex threads and automations, and is better at deciding whether to continue an existing Codex thread or start a new one. A dot can also read and edit ChatGPT Work automations, such as reviewing what is scheduled or updating a recurring task.
- OpenAI adds a College Planner to ChatGPT for Teens, per The Verge
The Verge reports that OpenAI is bringing College Planner to ChatGPT for Teens, the teen mode it introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders. OpenAI says the tool gathers application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for each school on a student's list into one plan.
- Common Sense Media rates ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk', per The Verge
The Verge reports that Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that reviews apps and media for youth safety, called OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'. OpenAI introduced the teen version in August with guardrails and a focus on helping students learn.
- ChatGPT Meetings takes notes on Mac without sending a bot into the call
OpenAI's Meetings plugin for the ChatGPT macOS desktop app is in beta for Pro and Business users. It captures the Mac's microphone and system audio instead of joining the call, and saves a summary with suggested action items to ChatGPT Space. OpenAI says audio is deleted once notes are ready, and users are responsible for getting participants' consent.
- People are asking ChatGPT how to vote in the US midterms, per a Reddit post
A post on r/singularity links a report that people are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterm elections.
- OpenAI to test visual ads inside ChatGPT image generation
OpenAI announced it will test a visual ad format in ChatGPT's image generation later this month in the US with initial advertisers, per the company. Ads will be clearly labeled and separate from generated images, and the company says they do not affect answers. It follows February's test of text ads for free and Go tiers.
- ChatGPT adds virtual try-on and Favorites shopping features, per TechCrunch
ChatGPT gained two shopping features: virtual try-on for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites option that saves products into the user's profile, per TechCrunch's Sarah Perez. The report did not include further product details.
- ChatGPT can now build and deploy MCP servers
OpenAI Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux announced that ChatGPT users can now build and deploy MCP servers directly through ChatGPT, and restrict a server's access to specific people or share it with the world.