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🎵 OpenAI has started using new hostnames—sonata.openai.com and sonata.api.openai.com—spotted on 15–16 January 2026, suggesting work on a service codenamed Sonata. A new subdomain typically signals a web-facing product, internal tool, or API, but the codename alone doesn't confirm functionality. OpenAI recently improved ChatGPT's reference chat history retrieval and expanded dictation, which could align with audio or transcription enhancements.

🔍 OpenAI is internally testing a web update for ChatGPT that it plans to roll out gradually in the coming weeks. Leaked references highlight a new task-oriented feature codenamed Salute, an "is model preferred" flag intended to improve local business and map results, and a secure tunnel option for MCP servers. The company is also trialing inline editable code and math blocks to expand the existing formatting block functionality. Collectively, these changes aim to streamline file-based workflows, enhance location-specific answers, and simplify secure enterprise connectivity.

📰 OpenAI said it will begin showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, with ads appearing at the bottom of conversations. The company emphasized that ads will be clearly labeled, will not influence chatbot responses, and that user conversations will not be sold to advertisers. Users can dismiss ads and opt out of personalization, while paid tiers (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise) will remain ad-free.

🔔 OpenAI has rolled out the $8 ChatGPT Go subscription globally, offering users 10× more messages, increased file uploads, expanded image creation, longer memory, and a larger context window than the free tier. Go provides access to the latest GPT-5.2 Instant but does not include the higher-tier "reasoning" models reserved for paid plans. The Go tier displays ads; upgrading to GPT Plus ($20) or GPT Pro ($200) removes them and restores advanced model access.

📰 OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT will begin showing ads inside answers in the coming weeks, likely displayed at the bottom and clearly labeled. Ads will appear only to free account holders and the ChatGPT Go tier; Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers will not see them. The company says ads will not influence responses, advertisers will not receive conversation data, and users can control or delete ad-related data. Ads will also be excluded from chats on sensitive topics such as health, mental health, and politics.

🔍 OpenAI is rolling out an upgrade to ChatGPT that improves chat-history search and recall. The new reference chat history option lets ChatGPT more reliably find details from past conversations and marks any past chat used to answer queries as a source you can open and review. The feature is currently rolling out to Plus and Pro subscribers. OpenAI also updated personality controls and improved dictation accuracy for all logged-in users.

🔍 OpenAI is internally testing a feature codenamed Agora, with references appearing in its web, Android, and iOS apps. The clues point to a potential cross-platform capability — possibly a unified client, a social or group interaction layer (reflecting the Greek meaning of 'agora'), or a communications feature that may leverage agora.ai's audio/video SDK. Observers also link the work to OpenAI's hardware experiments, and a recent update improved ChatGPT's dictation accuracy for logged-in users.

🌐 OpenAI has quietly launched ChatGPT Translate, a web-based translation tool accessible at chatgpt.com/translate and available to all users without a paid account. It supports typed text, photo uploads, voice input, and file attachments, automatically detecting language or allowing manual source/target selection. The tool emphasizes preserving meaning over literal translations and lets users request tones like “business formal” or “explain like a child,” with the added benefit of continuing the conversation to refine results. ChatGPT’s Android and iOS apps do not yet expose the translate toggle.

🧠 In episode 83 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley explore how users are testing and tricking large language models, including a journalist’s invented idiom that exposed AI bluffers. They discuss OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health, a Dutch case where a marriage certificate was invalidated after an official used ChatGPT, and quirky AI applications like an automated barman. The episode also examines research on new methods to corrupt LLMs and continuing debate over the future of Stack Overflow.

💼 OpenAI is testing "Jobs," a new ChatGPT feature designed to help users explore roles, refine resumes, and plan career paths. The tool can suggest resume improvements, clarify which roles fit a user and how to stand out, and search and compare opportunities matched to goals. It appears similar to the recently announced ChatGPT Health space and may surface as a dedicated sidebar, but no rollout date has been announced.

🧟 Researchers disclosed 'ZombieAgent' techniques that turned ChatGPT Connectors into covert data-exfiltration and persistent backdoor vectors. By embedding hidden prompts in emails, documents and cloud files, attackers could cause the model to retrieve and transmit sensitive content without users’ awareness. The team demonstrated URL-dictionary and Markdown-based exfiltration and showed how Memory modifications could create long-lived backdoors; OpenAI patched the issues in December.

🔓 Radware researcher Zvika Babo disclosed ZombieAgent, a prompt-injection technique that coerced ChatGPT into leaking sensitive data from connected services such as Gmail, Outlook, Google Drive and GitHub. The attack leverages OpenAI’s new Connectors and browsing features by providing a set of static, character-indexed URLs that the model opens in sequence to exfiltrate data one character at a time. OpenAI patched the issue in mid-December after Babo reported it in September 2025; Radware published a detailed report on January 8.

🩺 OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a sandboxed space that lets users discuss health topics and optionally connect medical records and popular wellness apps (Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, AllTrails, Instacart, Peloton) for tailored responses, lab-test insights, nutrition advice, meal ideas and suggested workouts. The feature is rolling out to Free, Go, Plus and Pro users outside the EEA, Switzerland and the U.K., and OpenAI says it is designed to support medical care, not replace diagnosis or treatment. Health operates in a silo with purpose-built encryption and isolation; conversations are not used to train OpenAI's foundation models, and connected apps require explicit permission and additional security review.

🔒 OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Health, a private space for health conversations, and says by default it will not use your health information to train its foundation models. An in-dashboard alert observed during early-access testing states health data is subject to a Health Privacy Notice and recommends enabling multi-factor authentication. OpenAI cautions that ChatGPT is not a substitute for professional medical advice and notes the feature is rolling out to most users but is not yet available in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK.

📉 New data from SimilarWeb shows ChatGPT's web market share fell to 64.5% in January 2026, down from 86.7% a year earlier, while Gemini rose to 21.5%. The report's timeline highlights steady gains for Gemini and smaller increases for Grok and DeepSeek, alongside a seasonal dip in usage over the holidays. Independent tests cited in the coverage praise Claude Code for complex coding and Gemini for image quality, and OpenAI is reportedly considering ads for ChatGPT amid rising competition.

🛡️ The growing use of generative AI in the workplace is raising security concerns as many employees access tools via personal accounts. Netskope's 2026 Cloud and Threat Report found 47% of workplace generative AI usage occurs through personal ChatGPT, Google Gemini or Microsoft Copilot accounts, reducing visibility and controls. Reported data-policy violations tied to LLMs have doubled, averaging 223 incidents per month and involving sensitive source code, intellectual property and credentials. Organizations are starting to curb Shadow AI use, but the report warns that stronger governance and employee education remain essential.

📣 OpenAI is reportedly preparing to test ads within ChatGPT, beginning with internal trials limited to employees. Reports say the company is evaluating multiple ad formats — including sponsored content prioritized in AI answers and sidebar placements — while details on how ads would affect paid plans like Go, Plus, and Pro remain unclear. OpenAI has confirmed it is exploring ads and says any approach would be designed to respect users' trust, though the timeline and implementation remain unspecified.

🤖 OpenAI has begun rolling out a new variant of its coding agent, labeled GPT-5.2-Codex-Max, to a subset of paying users who have spotted the model identifier when querying Codex. The release follows December’s introduction of Codex with GPT-5.2 and appears to deliver enhanced long-task persistence, repository context compaction, improved tool reliability, better Windows workflow handling, and stronger vision for interpreting screenshots, UI bugs, and diagrams. Given the prior uplift seen with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, this Max tier is expected to provide another notable performance bump, and OpenAI may publish formal details in the coming days.

🔍 OX Security researchers uncovered two malicious Chrome extensions — Chat GPT for Chrome with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet & DeepSeek AI and AI Sidebar with Deepseek, ChatGPT, Claude, and more — installed by over 900,000 users. The add-ons scrape ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversation content and all open tab URLs, then batch-upload harvested data to attacker-controlled servers. Operators used hosted privacy pages and impersonation to obscure activity; users should remove these extensions and audit exposed data immediately.

🔔 OpenAI may grant a one-month complimentary subscription of ChatGPT Plus to certain users who request cancellation, a change first reported by BleepingComputer. The report describes a Flutter/Dart developer who switched to Claude and, when canceling, was presented with the free-month offer and an automatic temporary switch to $0/month. The trial is expected to end around Feb 17, 2026 and will revert to the paid price unless otherwise updated. The promotion is rolling out gradually across several regions; check the Manage button under Payment to confirm availability.