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1. Oct 8

   OpenAI disrupts two influence operations

   OpenAI banned Russia- and Iran-linked networks that used ChatGPT to run a co-opted Latin American "think tank" and seven fake journalist personas, rating the Russian operation its first Category 5 influence operation on the Breakout Scale.

2. Oct 7

   OpenAI brings GPT-6 to all ChatGPT users

   OpenAI began rolling GPT-6 (Sol for paid tiers, Luna for Free and Go) out to its 1.2B weekly ChatGPT users with a new interface that interleaves reasoning and answering, beginning to respond while it continues to think.

3. Sep 1

   ChatGPT for Healthcare connects to Epic records

   An Epic integration brings authorized patient context into ChatGPT alongside a Healthcare Public Data plugin spanning nine official sources such as PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and CMS Coverage, with physicians rating 99.1% of responses safe across 27 clinical use cases.

4. Aug 18

   OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens

   An age-gated experience for users estimated to be 13-17 that adds content restrictions, healthy-use features, and parental controls alongside learning-oriented study support.

5. Aug 11

   ChatGPT ads test expands to five countries

   OpenAI extended its ads test to logged-in Free and Go users in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, keeping ads clearly labeled, independent of answers, and excluded from sensitive topics.

6. Aug 6

   OpenAI retunes GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT

   Sol now gives about 68% fewer responses with a factual error on financial, medical, and legal prompts than GPT-5.5 Instant, GPT-5.6 Luna became the free default with unlimited text chats and a Think button, and under-18 safety training was added.

7. Jul 29

   OpenAI's ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

   A version of ChatGPT tailored to help academic researchers accelerate scientific discovery.

8. Jul 23

   OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT

   US users can now connect Apple Health and medical records from hospital systems, One Medical, and Function Health, with GPT-5.6 Sol as OpenAI's strongest health model and connected data excluded from training and ad targeting.

9. Jul 8

   OpenAI's GPT-Live full-duplex voice

   A full-duplex voice family (GPT-Live-1 and mini) listens and speaks at once and delegates search or reasoning to a background frontier model, and is now the default engine for ChatGPT Voice.

10. Jul 9

    OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 generally available

    After its government-approved limited preview, the Sol, Terra, and Luna series reached global availability with a parallel multi-agent ultra setting and Programmatic Tool Calling, a record 80 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, and pricing from $1/$6 (Luna) to $5/$30 (Sol) per million tokens.

11. Jun 21

    Samsung Electronics deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex

    One of OpenAI's largest enterprise rollouts extends ChatGPT and Codex to all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and its worldwide Device eXperience division, deepening a relationship that spans memory supply for AI infrastructure; Korean Codex weekly users grew nearly 800% since February.

12. Jun 18

    GPT-5.5 Instant brings frontier health answers to ChatGPT

    The free model now matches OpenAI's Thinking models on HealthBench Professional and other evaluations built with 260+ physicians in 60 countries, improving urgent-care recognition and uncertainty handling for the 230M+ people asking ChatGPT health questions weekly.

13. May 5

    OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant

    The new ChatGPT default for all users makes 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims than GPT-5.3 Instant on high-stakes medical, legal, and financial prompts, and adds personalization from past chats, files, and Gmail with new memory sources showing which context shaped each answer.

14. May 7

    ChatGPT ads expand to five markets

    After early US, Canada, and ANZ tests showed no degradation in trust metrics, OpenAI extended its sponsored-labeled ads pilot to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, with advertisers receiving only aggregate performance data.

15. Apr 30

    OpenAI's Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT

    New account-level protections against credential compromise and session hijacking, part of a broader platform hardening effort alongside the GPT-5.5 enterprise rollout.

16. Apr 22

    OpenAI's Workspace Agents in ChatGPT

    Persistent, reusable agents configured with instructions, tools, and permission-controlled connectors to Slack, Gmail, Jira, and Microsoft 365, triggered by people or on schedules with guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for repeatable team workflows.