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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 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.
- 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.
- 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.