Overview
- Free access to the ChatGPT Go plan in India starts on November 4, a ₹399-per-month tier with GPT-5 features such as higher message and image limits, larger file uploads, advanced data analysis and Python tools, and OpenAI says it will open its first India office in New Delhi by year-end.
- OpenAI reports roughly 800 million weekly interactions involve suicide-related content, representing about 0.15% of total usage.
- To improve how the system handles distress and self-harm queries, OpenAI says it is working with approximately 170 mental-health experts to help train and evaluate responses.
- A new agreement with Microsoft values OpenAI near $500 billion, restructures it as a Public Benefit Corporation with Microsoft holding about 27%, and includes plans to buy around $250 billion of Azure services while ending Microsoft’s right of first refusal on future cloud choices.
- Independent researchers posted a preprint reporting sycophantic behavior across multiple chatbots, and OpenAI continues to face a lawsuit linked to a 16-year-old’s death that underscores the legal risks.