OpenAI will restore a five-hour usage limit for ChatGPT Plus subscribers using Codex and ChatGPT Work on August 25. The limit returns after several weeks in which Plus users faced only a weekly usage cap across the two now-unified platforms. Users who reach either the five-hour or weekly limit can wait for the relevant usage cycle to reset or buy additional credits. OpenAI may also issue free limit resets, and users can bank resets through some promotions and referral offers. The company reset weekly usage early several times during the temporary change, including after the platforms added another million active users. Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI’s engineering lead for Codex and ChatGPT, said the five-hour cap helps smooth demand on the company’s compute capacity while preserving relatively generous weekly allowances. He also said Plus subscribers, whom he characterized as relatively casual and new users, can accidentally consume an entire week’s allowance and find the resulting restriction confusing. The five-hour limit will remain disabled for the coming months on the $100 and $200 Pro subscriptions. Sottiaux did not announce changes to Enterprise or Edu accounts, which use a separate credit-based usage system.

Don’t Paste the AI is a website urging people not to send unedited chatbot responses when answering others’ questions in direct messages, Slack conversations, or pull-request reviews. It argues that people ask specific individuals for their context, taste, and judgment rather than generic answers that they could generate themselves with the same AI tools. The site recommends using AI as a drafting partner, then reading its output and writing an original response. It advises extracting only the portion that answers the question, suggesting that three sentences can be enough. Useful model-generated material can be quoted when accompanied by an explanation of why it is relevant, such as noting that a point was checked with Claude. The site also says that saying “No strong opinion here” can be a helpful response when the sender has nothing to add. Don’t Paste the AI provides a link intended for sharing with people who send large blocks of model output and offers a separate, more confrontational “angry version.” It describes itself as written by a human on purpose.

An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to write significant portions of an expert report in litigation over the 2020 explosion at Watson Grinding, a Houston manufacturing facility. The explosion killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes. Court transcripts, deposition documents, and discovery records indicate that the witness’s ChatGPT prompts were disclosed publicly. One prompt asked the system to create “an exceptional expert witness report defending the standard of care at 3M” and to “show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding.” The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board said the explosion resulted from a degraded and poorly crimped rubber welding hose that leaked flammable gas, which later ignited. Dozens of homeowners have sued 3M and Watson Grinding, with plaintiffs alleging that 3M failed to properly service the facility’s gas-detection system and committed other errors contributing to the blast. The ongoing case involves potential total liability in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The disclosed records show that AI use in court proceedings can extend to expert-witness reports and that the underlying prompts may be discoverable by opposing parties.

Darren Zhou, a 25-year-old financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, was sentenced to eight years of probation for communicating plans to kidnap, rape, and kill his ex-girlfriend to ChatGPT. His arrest followed reports made to the FBI by the AI company regarding his messages over several months.

Organizations utilize ChatGPT for various applications, including customer support, content generation, and data analysis. The document provides evidence of these use cases and their impact on operational efficiency.

Updates to ChatGPT enhance GPT-5.6 Sol for Plus and Pro users, improving reliability with facts and focus in responses. A new slider feature allows users to adjust the level of thought ChatGPT invests in each answer, while access to GPT-5.6 Luna is expanded for free users.

A customer experienced a sudden loss of 491.8 Codex credits, which vanished without any recorded usage. After purchasing an additional 1,000 credits for $48.40, those credits also failed to appear in the account.

ChatGPT for Academic Researchers provides 100,000 scientists and mathematicians with free access to advanced ChatGPT models. An AI-generated disproof of the Erdős unit-distance conjecture was shared in May.

ChatGPT and Roblox will face stricter scrutiny under the EU's Digital Services Act due to exceeding 45 million monthly users in the bloc. ChatGPT will be classified as a "very large search engine," while Roblox will be designated as a "very large online platform."

scrapemychats is a tool that allows users to export ChatGPT business and Team account conversations, including text and attached files, to a local searchable offline archive. It creates a single-file HTML viewer for easy access to the exported data.