OpenAI’s latest version of its vaunted ChatGPT bot was supposed to be “PhD-level” smart. It was supposed to be the next great leap forward for a company that investors have poured billions of dollars into.

OpenAI has reinstated GPT-4o as a default model option for paid ChatGPT subscribers, reversing a controversial change made during last week’s release of GPT-5. CEO Sam Altman announced the GPT-4o move on Wednesday, along with other updates to the company’s AI chatbot.

Altman said many people use ChatGPT "as a sort of therapist or life coach, even if they wouldn't describe it that way."

In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.

Sam Altman doesn't seem that concerned about copyright infringement, but says it's 'very screwed up' that OpenAI is legally required to retain chats, which could include 'your most sensitive stuff.'

Billionaire SpaceX, Tesla and X owner Elon Musk says he plans to sue Apple for not featuring X and its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot app in its top recommended apps in its App Store. Grok is owned by Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has secured a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration that will give federal agencies access to the company's leading frontier models through ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency for the next year, according to an OpenAI announcement.

The Elon Musk–Sam Altman rivalry, already a mix of billion-dollar stakes, bruised egos, and AI supremacy has taken a turn for the absurd. What began as a fresh round of accusations over algorithm bias has spiraled into a social media spectacle featuring ChatGPT,

Following the backlash against OpenAI removing ChatGPT-4o when it introduced ChatGPT-5, the AI giant has now restored access to ChatGPT-4o, but only for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Free tier users are limited to just ChatGPT-5 for now, but it seems that CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI aren’t done making changes to its LLM lineup just yet.