For millions of users, generative AI has become more than just a search tool, it’s a sounding board, a confidant, and sometimes, the first place they turn in a moment of crisis or emotional distress.

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Yet millions of us are already trusting ChatGPT with our secrets, our symptoms, and our sanity. But there's a new doctor in the clinic. Weekly users of ChatGPT have doubled this year to 800 million ...

In May, when OpenAI first demonstrated ChatGPT-4o’s coming audio conversation capabilities, I wrote that it felt like we were “on the verge of something… like a sea change in how we think of and work ...