OpenAI launches free one-year ChatGPT Go promotion in India starting November 4, targeting its second-largest market with over 29 million app downloads in 90 days despite low monetization of just $3.6 million in purchases.
PayPal breaks new ground as the first digital wallet to integrate with ChatGPT's Instant Checkout feature launching in 2026, allowing users to access their complete payment methods and shipping information directly through the AI interface, expanding OpenAI's e-commerce reach beyond current partnerships with major retailers like Etsy, Shopify, and Walmart.
DeepSeek releases groundbreaking open-source AI model achieving 10x efficiency boost that could revolutionize how companies process massive datasets, while Meta cuts 600 AI jobs and Reddit launches lawsuits against data scraping operations.
OpenAI reveals over one million users weekly discuss suicide with ChatGPT as the company faces lawsuits over a teenager's death, while claiming its new GPT-5 model shows 65% improvement in mental health responses amid growing legal pressure from parents and state attorneys general.
AI startup Mercor rockets to $10 billion valuation after raising $350 million, pivoting from hiring assessments to training AI models with 30,000 contractors earning $1.5 million daily while benefiting from clients fleeing competitor Scale AI following Meta's controversial acquisition.
MiniMax launches M2, a groundbreaking 230-billion parameter open-source AI model that achieves the #1 global ranking among open-source models on intelligence benchmarks while excelling at coding tasks with 69.4% performance on SWE-bench Verified and 46.3% on Terminal-Bench, now available free through multiple platforms.
AI code generation tools revolutionize software development by making custom-built solutions cheaper and faster than purchasing expensive proprietary libraries, with developers increasingly using AI models like Claude Sonnet to create tailored implementations instead of paying licensing fees for bloated packages they barely use.
OpenAI unveils company knowledge feature for ChatGPT Business users, allowing AI to directly access and search workplace data from Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, and SharePoint with enterprise security controls and permission-based access.
Revolutionary AI systems achieve 20% accuracy improvements by implementing self-reflection capabilities that allow models to critique and correct their own outputs, with studies showing dramatic gains from 70% to 91% accuracy across coding, math, and database tasks through intelligent feedback loops.
AI chatbots create an illusion of memory by rereading entire conversations from scratch with each response, facing exponentially growing computational costs as discussions lengthen, while new retrieval systems offer potential solutions to these fundamental limitations.