OpenAI emerges as a key player in India's booming AI landscape as JPMorgan highlights growth opportunities and challenges for the generative AI lab.

Like going to the supermarket and staring at aisles of cereal and sauces, the average ChatGPT user is currently faced with an overabundance.

ChatGPT is facing a spike in outages on Monday morning as OpenAI says it’s working to fix the bugs. OpenAI reported on its status page on Monday that it was experiencing a widespread outage impacting its popular AI chatbot. According to the Downdetector status page, a dramatic spike in outage reports began around 7:00 AM EDT on Monday.

"Now you call one of these things, an AI answers, it's like a super smart capable person… it can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do, it does not make mistakes, it's very quick, you call once, the thing just happens, it's done, answers right away, great."

It’s shocking, given that Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI. With its early Bing Chat launch, Microsoft pulled ahead of both OpenAI and Google, offering the first chatbot that could search the web. Microsoft even had early access to a more advanced GPT model than the one you could use in ChatGPT at the time. Then everything changed.

ChatGPT and Claude 4 are two of the smartest AI assistants available but they’re built with different strengths. Here’s how they compare to help you choose.

Proton’s just launched a ChatGPT rival with a focus on privacy - Chats are end-to-end encrypted, not stored on Proton’s servers, and never used to train AI models