OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India TechCrunch By: Ivan Mehta 27 August 2026 at 14:35 OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in TechCrunch By: Lucas Ropek 21 August 2026 at 01:09 Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.
A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds TechCrunch By: Sarah Perez 20 August 2026 at 20:18 ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.