ChatGPT Search & AI Citations
News, experiments and research about ChatGPT, OpenAI search, AI citations, web discovery and how brands and publishers appear in AI-generated answers.
ChatGPT Hit by Elevated Errors on August 27, With Users Reporting Unusual Internal Tokens
ChatGPT Hit by Elevated Errors on August 27, With Users Reporting Unusual Internal Tokens ChatGPT experienced a period of elevated errors on August 27, 2026, affecting ChatGPT Work...
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ChatGPT Ads Launch in India as OpenAI Expands in Brazil
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business into India while strengthening its commercial operations in Brazil, underscoring the growing importance of two of ChatGPT's largest int...
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ChatGPT Rebuilt How It Searches the Web. SEOs Should Pay Attention
SEO has spent decades learning how to optimize for a search box. ChatGPT is making that mental model increasingly incomplete. Recent observations of ChatGPT’s web-search tooling su...
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The Best ChatGPT Plugins Are the Ones That Turn Conversation Into Action
ChatGPT becomes considerably more interesting when the conversation stops being the final product. A useful answer is one thing; an assistant that can turn the answer into a playli...
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Reddit’s ChatGPT Citation Drop Exposes a Weakness in How We Think About GEO
Reddit did not suddenly become irrelevant to the internet in August. Its communities did not stop producing product recommendations, first-hand experiences, troubleshooting advice....
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ChatGPT Warned a User Not to Run the Command It Had Just Written
A curious exchange posted to Reddit has drawn attention to an increasingly visible trait of modern AI assistants: they can sometimes catch their own mistakes, but only after they h...
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OpenAI Expands Free ChatGPT for Teachers to More Than 300,000 Educators
OpenAI is significantly expanding its push into U.S. education, bringing its free ChatGPT for Teachers program to dozens of additional school systems and puttin...
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ChatGPT’s Viral NeoValues Test Raises a Bigger Question About AI Personality
A short post in Reddit’s r/ChatGPT community has turned a seemingly simple AI experiment into a much larger discussion about personality, values and the way people evaluate convers...
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OpenAI Pushes ChatGPT Deeper Into U.S. Schools With a Teacher-First Strategy
OpenAI is accelerating its push into American education, positioning ChatGPT not simply as a tool students might use outside the classroom but as an increasingl...
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OpenAI Blocks Russia-Origin ChatGPT Accounts Linked to a Covert Influence Campaign
OpenAI has blocked a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that it says very likely originated in Russia and were being used as part of a previously unreported covert influence operation. Th...
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iPhone Prices, ChatGPT in Messages, and the Netflix–YouTube Battle: Three Forces Reshaping Consumer Tech
The biggest technology stories are often connected by a common theme: the fight for a larger share of the consumer’s money, attention and daily habits. A recent ZDNET Tech Today di...
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