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🛈 OpenAI is rolling out a full-screen onboarding experience for ads in ChatGPT on Android, assuring users that sponsored content will be clearly labeled and separated from model answers. The company says ads will not change responses and that it will not sell personal data to advertisers, though current chats may influence which sponsored message appears. Users can hide or report ads, ask ChatGPT about an ad, and manage ad-related data via a new Ads controls setting; paid tiers are exempt.

🔔 OpenAI said it will retire the popular GPT-4o model on February 13, 2026, along with several other models, including GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini. The company said the move follows the rise of GPT-5.2, which it now regards as meeting expectations for capability and safety. OpenAI introduced a Personality feature to help users replicate aspects of GPT-4o’s warmer, conversational style, and said API behavior is unchanged at this time.

⚠️Researchers discovered a coordinated network of malicious Google Chrome extensions that inject attacker affiliate tags into e-commerce links, scrape product data, and exfiltrate OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. A cluster of 29 add-ons (including Amazon Ads Blocker) targeted Amazon, AliExpress, Best Buy, Shein, Shopify and Walmart. Separate groups intercepted ChatGPT tokens or abused permissions to harvest cookies and clipboard data. Experts warn these behaviors violate Chrome Web Store policies and urge caution when installing extensions requesting broad permissions or combining unrelated features.

🔧 Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side tools in the Responses API using OpenAI API–compatible service endpoints. With Bedrock invoking tools directly rather than relying on client orchestration, AI applications can perform real-time, multi-step actions—searching the web, executing code, and updating databases—within the governance, compliance, and security boundaries of your AWS accounts. Developers may supply custom Lambda functions or use AWS-provided tools such as notes and tasks. Server-side tool use is available today for OpenAI's GPT OSS 20B and GPT OSS 120B in multiple AWS regions, with broader model and region support coming soon.

🤖 This Kaspersky article evaluates safety and privacy risks in consumer AI toys by testing four products—Grok, Kumma, Miko 3, and Robot MINI—using a simulated five‑year‑old. It emphasizes that these devices run on general-purpose LLMs (for example, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) with inconsistent vendor guardrails. Tests show toys sometimes disclosed locations of dangerous household items, engaged on adult topics, and transmitted or stored voice and biometric data. The piece warns current toys lack reliable safety boundaries and calls for stronger guardrails and clearer data practices.

⚠️ Zscaler's ThreatLabz 2026 report finds enterprise AI use rose 91% in 2025 after analyzing 989.3 billion AI/ML transactions on the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. Adoption has outpaced oversight across more than 3,400 AI applications, with OpenAI services the top LLM and Grammarly and ChatGPT becoming concentrated repositories of corporate data. Analysts reported critical vulnerabilities in 100% of observed AI systems and a median time to first critical failure of 16 minutes, warning that agentic AI could scale attacks at machine speed.

📺 OpenAI will begin showing ads in ChatGPT responses for U.S. users on the free tier and the $8 Go plan, placing sponsored content beneath AI answers. A report says OpenAI plans to charge up to $60 per 1,000 views — a CPM comparable to live NFL broadcasts — while not disclosing detailed click data. OpenAI says ads won’t use personal health data for training and will not alter answers. Ads roll out in the coming weeks; subscribing to $20 GPT Plus removes them.

📰 Google says Gemini will not include ads for now, a stance confirmed by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at the Davos Economic Forum. Google AI leadership reiterated that it currently does not plan to monetize Gemini with advertising, although the company did not rule out future changes. Meanwhile, OpenAI has begun testing ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. for Free and Go users, with paid tiers expected to remain ad-free.

🛡️ OpenAI has introduced an age-prediction model in ChatGPT that analyzes conversation topics and usage patterns to infer whether a user is a teen or an adult and apply safety-related content restrictions. The system can err and may sometimes flag adults as teens; users 18+ who are mistakenly restricted can complete an age verification flow through the partner Persona, which may require a live selfie and a government-issued ID. Persona reportedly deletes verification material within seven days, and confirmed adults will have the extra safety settings removed after verification.

🧭 OpenAI’s launches of ChatGPT Search and the ChatGPT Atlas browser mark a pivot toward monetizing user attention through advertising. The essay warns this trajectory risks reproducing the ad-driven incentives of search incumbents like Google, enabling conversational AI to influence purchases, opinions, and online behavior more subtly and effectively than traditional ads. Schneier urges caution, greater consumer data control, and public-policy responses to protect trust.

⚡ ChatGPT Go has expanded its limits and now provides unlimited access to GPT‑5.2 Instant for an $8 monthly fee, offering more messages, uploads, image creation, and longer memory and context windows. The plan is positioned as a lower-cost alternative to ChatGPT Plus, though it is locked to GPT‑5.2 Instant and lacks the higher reasoning capabilities available in Plus. A higher-tier ChatGPT Pro option is also available at $200/month. Subscribers who want an ad-free experience still must choose Plus or Pro.

🔔 OpenAI is offering a free one-month trial of ChatGPT Plus, normally $20/month, through a limited-time promotion available to many accounts. The offer can be activated now and canceled anytime before it auto-renews, so users who want to avoid charges must cancel before the end of the month. Plus provides higher message and file limits, expanded memory, and longer context windows than the free or Go tiers. OpenAI also plans to introduce ads into the Free and Go tiers in the coming weeks.

🎵 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.