タグ: OpenAI

ChatGPT Personal Finance is the biggest expansion of ChatGPT’s role in your daily life since memory, and it’s also the most polarizing. OpenAI launched the Personal Finance preview on May 15, 2026, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the United States only. Plaid powers the bank connections, with support for more than 12,000 banks, brokerages, and credit cards, including Chase, Schwab, Fidelity, Robinhood, American Express, and Capital One. Once your accounts are linked, ChatGPT can read balances, transactions, investments, and liabilities, and answer real questions about your money grounded in your actual numbers, not a generic financial textbook. For the bigger question of whether software can actually beat the market, see […]

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is that heavier models reverse this; researchers estimate GPT-5 averages around 18 watt-hours per query, with complex answers reaching 40 Wh. Across 2.5 billion queries a day, even the small number adds up to roughly 310 GWh a year. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, […]

Sam Altman is (1) the CEO of OpenAI, (2) the executive who steered the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, (3) the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, (4) a billionaire venture investor worth an estimated $2 to $3.3 billion as of May 2026, and (5) one of the most influential people in artificial intelligence. Sam is 41 years old and 5 feet 6 inches tall. He was born to a Jewish family in Chicago on April 22, 1985. He has been married to Australian software engineer Oliver Mulherin since January 2024. This article covers Sam Altman’s full biography in one place. It runs from his Stanford dropout days […]

How much water does ChatGPT use? OpenAI’s own figure, stated by CEO Sam Altman, is about 0.000085 gallons per query, roughly 0.32 mL or one fifteenth of a teaspoon, alongside 0.34 watt-hours of electricity. Independent estimates that count only data-center cooling land a little higher, around 1.5 to 4 mL per prompt. The scary viral number, about 519 mL (a full bottle) to write a 100-word email with GPT-4, is not a contradiction. It counts the entire electricity and training supply chain, which is why credible figures span more than 150x. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, per prompt, […]

ChatGPT for Teachers is free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2027. The plan gives you unlimited messages with GPT-5.1 Auto, a secure education-grade workspace, and FERPA-aligned privacy where your data is not used to train OpenAI’s models by default. Eligibility covers teachers, school staff, and district administrators at accredited U.S. K-12 schools, verified through SheerID at chatgpt.com/k12-verification. It is not a discounted paid tier; it is a dedicated product that sits between the personal free app and OpenAI’s enterprise plans. This guide covers exactly who qualifies, how to get verified in a few minutes, what you get compared to the standard free plan, and what teachers outside the […]

ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded on December 11, 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman and a small group of researchers. ChatGPT itself was built by OpenAI’s research team and launched publicly on November 30, 2022. It reached 1 million users in 5 days and 100 million monthly users in 2 months, the fastest consumer product adoption in history at that point. The short answer is “OpenAI built it,” but the longer answer is more interesting. ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere. It sat on top of a decade of work, a controversial Elon Musk exit, […]

The number one reason ChatGPT cancellations “don’t work” has nothing to do with OpenAI’s website. It’s that ChatGPT runs on three separate billing systems, and most people try to cancel in the wrong one. If you signed up on iPhone, Apple bills you. If you signed up on Android, Google bills you. If you signed up on chatgpt.com, OpenAI bills you. Cancel in the wrong place and your subscription keeps charging, whether it’s Plus at $20/month or Pro at $200/month. This guide covers every cancellation path that exists in 2026, across every paid tier. The same iPhone, Android, and web steps work for Plus, Pro, and Go, since they all […]

ChatGPT pricing in 2026 covers seven pricing plans plus pay-per-token API access: Free at $0, Go at $8/month, Plus at $20/month, Pro at $100/month, Pro at $200/month, Business at $25-30/user/month, and Enterprise on custom pricing. The biggest recent changes include ChatGPT Personal Finance launching on May 15, 2026 as a US-only preview for Pro subscribers via Plaid, Codex Mobile rolling out free on every ChatGPT plan (including Free and Go) on May 14, 2026, GPT-5.5 replacing GPT-5.4 as the default flagship on April 23, 2026 (with a new GPT-5.5 Pro variant for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users), the Pro $100/month tier launched April 9, 2026, the Go plan going global […]

GPT-5.5 sits at 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (#2 of 141 models), two points ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro at 57. OpenAI’s April 23, 2026 launch flipped a dead heat into a clear ChatGPT lead on most head-to-head benchmarks, and Google answered on May 19, 2026 with Gemini 3.5 Flash, the new free-tier default that runs ~4x faster output than 3.1 Pro and undercuts GPT-5.5 on price at $1.50/$9.00 per 1M tokens. Those headline numbers still hide massive differences in what each AI actually does best, and choosing the wrong one could mean paying for features you don’t need while missing the ones you do. This comparison breaks […]

Claude hit #1 on the App Store in early 2026, pushing ChatGPT out of the top spot for the first time. The catalyst was Anthropic publicly refusing the Pentagon’s demand to deploy its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, after which the government labelled Anthropic a “supply chain risk.” The backlash flipped the script: users migrated to Claude out of sympathy for Anthropic’s stance, and the company reported over 60% growth in free users and more than doubled paid subscribers in just a few months. For more on how the two companies’ philosophies shape what you actually see in the chat window, we broke down how Claude and ChatGPT […]