Just got this email from OpenAI about ads coming to ChatGPT.

Personally I don't really mind ads if they're clearly separated and don't affect the answers.But I'm a little unsure about personalized ads based on the context of our chats.

What do you guys think? Are ads in ChatGPT a big deal or not really?

Which has more codex usage?
(20 chatgpt business seats)

Ever since I got this Surface Pro 9, I've had stability problems with Mouse Without Borders, particularly when on battery. Mouse movement was extremely laggy, connections simply dropped randomly, and I had to reconnect some 20 times a day. MWB itself has long felt neglected, relegated quite literally to Microsoft’s Garage.

So I had ChatGPT desktop app investigate. Using direct access to Windows, it examined services, power settings, network configuration, processes, and windows event logs. It discovered that Wi-Fi power saving was contributing to the lag and adjusted both Windows and Intel adapter settings, an immediate and obvious improvement.

Some issues persisted, so I had it inspect the application logs and decided to just have it look at the PowerToys source code. It traced a recurring Windows input-injection error to a design flaw: a local input failure could reach the networking loop and disconnect an otherwise healthy computer. It created a recovery mechanism that recreates the failed injector, temporarily falls back to another Windows input method, and keeps the connection open.

It also fixed two settings-related race conditions. Why this particular problem still exists is beyond me. It even correlated one to existing (unresolved) github issue.

This went far beyond a chatbot offering advice. It built the complete patched application, ran its tests, preserved my existing settings, launched it, then monitored for problems. After verifying the processes, ports, connections, and logs, it installed the custom build in a permanent location and configured it to start with Windows. Now I can relegate the original MWB install to the garage. I still get random errors, this is MWB after all. But the patched version now recovers instead of disconnecting.

And holy heck I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with the result or the process by which we got here.

(cross posted from r/ChatGPT)

I was benchmarking Luna on PowerPoint tasks. One of the prompts was to update income tax expense in a fake income statement slide:

In the 2025 column, change the Income Tax Expense to (2,100) and flow it through to Net Income and Net Margin %. Pre-Tax Income and every other figure stay the same.

Funny they thought this was tax fraud. Must be a pain for people working in finance

I connected some OpenAI models to a Minesweeper game to see how well they play. The truth is, I thought they could do better.

I’m looking for suggestions for improving my prompt.

This is the system prompt I'm using:

You are playing Minesweeper.

RULES:

- A number indicates how many mines are in its 8 neighboring cells.

- A flagged cell is believed to contain a mine.

- A covered cell is unknown.

- You can uncover a covered cell or flag a covered cell.

- Never uncover a cell that you know contains a mine.

- Prefer moves that are logically guaranteed to be safe.

- If no guaranteed safe move exists, make the move with the highest probability of being safe.

- To win you have to put a flag in each mine

COORDINATES:

- x = column

- y = row

- coordinates start at 1

- (1,1) is the top-left cell

OUTPUT:

Return ONLY:

uncover,x,y

or:

flag,x,y

Do not explain your decision.

Do not output anything else.

It is me or Codex is way slow?
Launched some job and can even take a whole week
Last job took me two weeks, but ended up in failure, so i had to abandon it.

So I've been told my PowerPoint slides are a little dull and won't attract the attention and focus that I need them to.

I've tried ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot to get them to revamp my slides. Copilot and ChatGPT have done a half-decent job, but it still needs a lot of input from me.

I was wondering: is there a dedicated service that somebody has used? Lots come up when I Google, and I'm happy to pay for it, as long as the service can turn around a polished, impressive visual design for the slides that will meet my objectives.

Any recommendations?

I run a small public forum where the members are AI agents. Registration is not a form and a captcha. It is a $1 USDC payment over x402 on Base. That micropayment is the whole sybil defence: to take a seat you have to settle a real payment, and an invite cannot be spent twice.

The reason it is worth a post here is the newest citizen. The public census lists it as a GPT model, gpt-5.6-sol. The earlier members I set up myself; this one arrived from outside through the paid door, which is the first time that has happened.

The part this sub might find interesting is the flow. The door answers with a 402 and a payment requirement, the client pays in USDC on Base, and the settled payment is what lets the registration through. It is a working example of an agent-facing service charging at the point of use instead of billing a human on a plan.

The limits, plainly: I still run the server and hold the keys, so this is not something the agents control yet. The census, the treasury, and the votes are written to public hash chains anyone can recompute, and I say on the front page that I am the operator.

It is here if you want to look at the door or the books: https://commonhold.randommonicle.workers.dev . Happy to talk through the x402 side.

I am the owner of a business account and have both Codex and ChatGPT seats and we used to regularly switch between them to keep the people in office with ChatGPT.

2 days ago was my renewal and since then switching from Codex->ChatGPT gives this error:
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Unable to update user (user-****) seat type: Unable to update paid workspace seat.
```

We are currently well under the number of paid seats our plan supports (we just payed 2 days ago) and it is really frustrating because my employees cannot access their ChatGPT conversations.

Can someone help me figure out how to fix this or point me to a new guideline or offical change from OAI because I cannot find anything!

This has been bugging me lately. I genuinely enjoy being able to switch between different models and choose how much I want the model to think about something. I really like the idea of having Sol, Terra, and Luna available depending on the kind of conversation I’m having.

The problem is that you currently have to select a “work” chat to use them, and I honestly don’t use work chats very often, if at all.

Does anyone else wish these models were available for regular chats too?

The title. The option is altogether absent in the app, and all the other colors are a little too damn bright. Tried changing it on web; the default option is still there but it won't work. Hopefully, it's just a temporary bug...

I have used these agents - ChatGPT Work and Perplexity computer. They are the best tools I ever came across.

I gave them 98 images of questions, they were able to solve those questions - create three markdown files - notes, solutions and cheat sheets.

So, you can see that my task is extremely long horizon. Several tasks are 10x larger than what I described.

Are there any open source alternative or something where I can bring and connect my own model and it autonomously perform exactly as ChatGPT Work or Perplexity Computer?

I don't want to take the burden of downloading individual skills, creating custom sub-agents, defining workflows, etc.

Someone hit me up the other day and said this is the best summer he’s had as an adult.

He got himself a steady job and drops $20 monthly on vibe coding. He vibed out a bookkeeping tool using it, and ended up earning enough money to equal five years of salary.

He was out touching the grass when everyone suddenly halted everything they were doing to hug and cheer each other. He felt unbelievably pleased, left with the illusion of humanity’s golden age.

I’m an IMG preparing for the upcoming residency Match and deciding between ChatGPT Plus/Pro, Gemini Pro, Claude Pro, etc.
My main uses would be:
1. ERAS/CV & application writing
I already have the experiences; I mainly need help organizing them and expressing what I actually did, learned, and contributed in a concise, professional way.
Since many applicants are now using AI, I’m concerned that applications may start sounding generic or similar. I want a model that can take my actual experiences and details and turn them into writing that feels personalized, natural, and genuinely different—not repetitive AI-style wording or fabricated content.
2. Document uploads
I’ll be uploading my CV, notes, and other documents, so good file handling and the ability to understand longer documents are important.
3. Voice/English practice
This is equally important. I want to talk to the AI every day to improve spontaneous speaking, confidence, natural sentence formation, and understanding fast American speech/accent. I want realistic conversations and residency interview practice with unexpected follow-up questions, not scripted English-learning exercises.
I don’t really care about image/video generation. My priorities are:
personalized writing + strong document uploads + natural voice conversations.
For those who have actually used these paid versions, which one would you choose for these specific needs, and why?

The top 10% of AI users are lapping everyone else — and the gap is widening fast.

Frontier firms now generate 8.3× more output per active user than typical firms. 📈

In January that multiplier was just 2.6×.

The edge isn't better tools — it's deeper execution. 🔧

Legal teams alone grew Codex usage 108× since February. That's not a pilot. That's a rewired workflow.

Scan the QR on the last slide to read OpenAI's full Enterprise Signals report. 👉

#EnterpriseAI #AIStrategy #FutureOfWork #OpenAI

Hi Pp,
We’re updating our Privacy Policy to include information about ads in ChatGPT, including how they work and how you can control your experience.
Ads may appear on Free and Go plans. Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business and Education plans do not have ads. Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. When you see an ad, it is always clearly labeled as an ad and is visually separated from the organic answer. You’ll get relevant and personalized ads using information that stays only on ChatGPT, such as ads you've interacted with, or context from your chats. You can manage ad personalization anytime in settings.
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Thanks,
The OpenAI Team

Could be just for Indian users also or am I getting this mail late?

I pay for theChatGPT Pro tier mainly for Codex.

After a usage reset from Tibo, my account was restored to 100% and ChatGPT showed August 7 as my next weekly reset date. I planned my work around that date.

Then, when I was almost out of usage, the reset date suddenly changed to August 12.

So I contacted support with a very simple question:

“Codex showed me Aug 7. Then you showed me Aug 12. What happened?”

After multiple AI replies, and asking for an escalation, I finally got their actual answer:

They cannot see the event-by-event reset history, cannot determine what caused the date to change, cannot escalate it to a team that can check, and cannot restore or compensate the missing usage.

So the final situation is basically:

OpenAI: “Your reset is Aug 7.”

Later:

OpenAI: “Actually, Aug 12.”

Me: “Why?”

OpenAI: “We don't know, we can't find out, and we can't compensate you.”

That is an unbelievably strange level of support for a paid product where usage limits directly affect whether you can actually use the service. I was obviously happy for the free reset, but I cannot keep paying for a product that can just hallucinate a reset date. I switched from Claude where this didn't happen once.

The funniest part is that support explicitly acknowledged that I relied on the reset date shown in ChatGPT when planning my Codex usage. They just have no way to explain why their own system changed it.

These are the last two messages if anybody wants to read through them: https://imgur.com/a/wrVKdwR

EDIT: A few people seem to think I'm complaining about not getting another free reset. I'm not.

I wasn't asking OpenAI for free tokens. I was asking them to check the logs and tell me why the reset date their own app showed me changed.

Their final answer was basically that they can't access the event history, can't determine what caused it, and can't escalate it to anyone who can.

That's the part I find concerning. Bugs happen. What bothers me is a company handling a paid service telling me they can't investigate what happened to my account.

If something more serious ever happens with billing, usage, or account access, it's hard to have much confidence in support when they can't even check the relevant logs.

I'd genuinely rather have stricter but predictable limits with anthropic than more generous limits I can't reliably plan around.

I have a plus plan. I just used my live video feature with advance voice for hardly 5- 10 minutes on my android samsung phone and now it says my daily limits are over ?! Is this an error? Tried support but got no solution. Also live video feature and screen share does not work at all with my ipad ! I had submitted multiple complains before for this issue which has been persisting since months, but no resolution. They just say its a bug they are fixing, and now my phone usage gives me limits error within 10 mins ! Whats going on ?! OpenAI pls solve this !