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ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week, OpenAI says

Summary by Nieman Lab
ChatGPT 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 states last month, local news queries surged. Prompts about “weather, disasters, and school closures more than quadrupled,” OpenAI disclosed in the post. Aside from the s…

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Nieman Lab broke the news in on Wednesday, February 4, 2026.
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