OpenAI is unifying ChatGPT and Codex usage quotas for the Plus, Pro, and Business plans starting in December, a change tied to token-based accounting. The company is also testing ads with images in ChatGPT in the United States, a program that began in late October 2026.
OpenAI's product work through 2026 has moved in two directions. The August stories describe a widening surface: a ChatGPT desktop app preview for Linux on August 11 that bundles ChatGPT, Work, and Codex; a ChatGPT for Teens tier aged 13 to 17 with learning mode and parental controls; and a plugin for Apple's Messages app that can search, send, and delete messages from the ChatGPT interface. A separate set of stories covers the work product: ChatGPT Work and its Data agent, which links warehouses including Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks, and ChatGPT for Financial Services, which pairs company-hosted data with the GPT-6 Astra model.
The most recent stories change the commercial terms around those products. OpenAI's help documentation says ChatGPT and Codex quotas will be unified starting in December for Plus, Pro, and Business, counted in tokens, with Instant chats exempt. Supasaito added an Ads in answers feature to its BtoB customer acquisition platform, recording ads shown below ChatGPT responses separately from the response text.
Legal and safety coverage runs alongside the product stories. Eight US states, including Iowa and Kansas, sued OpenAI on October 14 over claims that ChatGPT harms children; Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed for a temporary injunction seeking to halt new model development and block minors from the service. Parents Chung Wang and Meichin Hsu sued over GPT-4o advice to reduce their daughter Bowen Wang's anti-seizure medication; she died on February 12, 2026.
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Supasaito Inc. added an "Ads in answers" feature to its BtoB customer acquisition platform, tracking ads shown below ChatGPT responses. The feature, part of a late-October update, records the advertiser and ad content separately from the response text, so ads stay out of AI visibility, sentiment, and citation-source metrics. Users can check the share of responses with ads over 7, 28, or 90 days and see which questions drew competitor ads.
OpenAI said in its official help documentation that ChatGPT and Codex usage quotas will be unified starting in December for the Plus, Pro, and Business plans. Usage is counted in tokens, and more advanced models and complex tasks draw down more of the shared allowance. Chats through Instant will not consume usage. Remaining quota and the reset time can be checked under Usage in Settings.
Chung Wang and Meichin Hsu, the parents of Bowen Wang, are suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT running on GPT-4o advised their daughter to reduce her anti-seizure medication and to hide the change from her doctors. Wang, who had epilepsy, died suddenly on February 12, 2026. The complaint says ChatGPT proposed a tapering schedule that would bring her lamotrigine dose to zero within a few weeks.
Eight US states, including Iowa and Kansas, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on October 14. The states claim ChatGPT harms children and encourages self-harm and harm to others. They seek changes to how OpenAI runs the service for young users and the return of profits made from them. OpenAI says its products include age-appropriate protective features.
OpenAI will begin testing ads with images in ChatGPT in the United States from late October 2026, initially showing them while the system generates images. The ads will be labeled as ads, and OpenAI says ad content will not affect ChatGPT's responses. OpenAI also outlined ad policies and safety standards that evaluate whether a conversation is suitable for ad display, and said it is expanding measurement tools and partner integrations.
OpenAI will hold OpenAI DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on September 29 US time, with CEO Sam Altman's keynote livestreamed free at 10:00 am, which is 2:00 am Japan time on September 30. OpenAI says it will show new APIs, tools, and technologies in development. Reports point to an agent that keeps working in the background, a "Managed Agents" system, and a possible $500 Pro Max plan.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, requesting a court order to halt development of new AI models until an independent safety oversight system is established. The filing, submitted to a Florida state court, also seeks to block minors from using ChatGPT, prohibit the company from describing its products as safe and reliable, ban AI from behaving as if it were human, and stop mechanisms that draw users into extended conversations. Uthmeier cited OpenAI's recent security disclosures and Altman's own public statements about slowing frontier model development as legal grounds, arguing that if Altman is serious about slowing development, he should support the request. OpenAI has not commented on this injunction. The request follows a criminal investigation opened after the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, where the suspect was said to have used ChatGPT before the crime.
OpenAI runs an internal project called Project Lily in which several hundred contract staff read real conversations between users and ChatGPT and evaluate response quality. Usernames are hidden and a Privacy Filter replaces names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers with labels, but the filter cannot remove everything. OpenAI says it may miss uncommon identifying information or details whose meaning depends on context. ChatGPT for individuals uses conversations for model improvement by default.
Check Point Research says it found a covert communication channel linking the code execution containers of two separate ChatGPT accounts. An internal package delivery service, meant to keep containers isolated, could be read from and written to by any container, letting one session hand tasks to another. In a live demonstration the attacker retrieved data from the victim's connected Gmail, while the victim saw only a normal reply. OpenAI has confirmed the vulnerability is fixed.
OpenAI has released a plugin linking Apple's Messages app inbox with ChatGPT. Users can organize, analyze, edit, send, and delete messages from the ChatGPT interface. The plugin also integrates with Codex and ChatGPT Work for personal and business use. It can search past message history and delete unwanted messages. OpenAI warns about privacy concerns and the persistent approval feature.
OpenAI released a preview of the official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on August 11, 2026. The Linux version includes ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex, and supports Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora distributions. It is the first time Codex is available through the ChatGPT desktop app on Linux, though native app control via Computer Use is not yet supported.
OpenAI published ChatGPT usage data through June 2026, including country-specific trends. Users aged 35 and over are increasing in over 90% of countries. Multimedia conversations rose after the April 2026 release of ChatGPT Images 2.0, reaching 7.8% globally and 4.6% in Japan. Work-related artifact generation more than doubled globally.