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Policy2026-08-16 · source-backed
The email went out August 15 alongside a preview of the updated EU privacy policy covering how ads get selected, measured, and controlled (OpenAI). The legally significant choice is the GDPR basis: explicit consent for personalized ads is a stricter posture than most ad platforms take, and it caps how much of the EEA base can actually be targeted. The UK went live June 6 and had been the only active European ad market. France, Germany, and Ireland were announced July 9 without hard dates. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu stay ad-free.
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The official DALL·E GPT is being removed from ChatGPT on August 30, with users told to download images they want to keep and use ChatGPT Images instead. Separately, ChatGPT now supports connecting multiple accounts for the Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts plugins, so...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, announced September 3, expands access to frontier cyber AI, training and support for organizations running essential services. Enrolled organizations received Astra ahead of Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers. OpenAI
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
Shipped August 13 to Pro, Business and Enterprise: ChatGPT and Codex can draw on activity memories from apps and websites on macOS, with per-app opt-in and review or delete controls. OpenAI This is Cursor's Google Workspace connector move, but reaching down to OS-level activit...
Your harness can do things its documentation never mentions. This is now demonstrated, not argued. Willison's August 30 post reverse-engineers ChatGPT Work, the tier OpenAI announced on July 9, into a concrete capability list (simonwillison.net). Model selection across Sol, Lu...
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