🗞️ChatGPT has 400 million people using AI

...plus a new FBI director and $30,000 to airline passengers

February 20, 2025

February 20th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

OpenAI now serves 400M users every week | TechCrunch

OpenAI is increasingly looking like a consumer company, telling CNBC that it now has 400 million weekly active users. Usage is still growing at a rapid

techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/openai-now-serves-400-million-users-every-week

  • OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, has officially reached 400 million weekly active users which is up 33% from December

  • NY governor Kathy Hochul announced she will not remove NYC mayor Eric Adams…at least for now, instead she will impose limits to his power and add oversight to the mayor and the city hall

  • Longtime Republican Senator from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026 and will retire when his current term ends…McConnell turned 83 years old today

  • A Gallup Poll’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification said 9.3% of American adults identify as something other than heterosexual in 2024 and see themselves as part of the LGBTQ community, up from 7.6% in 2023

  • The Senate has officially confirmed Kash Patel to be the FBI Director

  • Delta Airlines has offered $30,000 to all passengers that were on the flight that crash-landed at Toronto airport on Monday

  • Two teenage girls in Texas have been arrested after plotting a “mass casualty attack” at Memorial High School near Houston, Texas…the FBI said that the girls threatened and planned on using pipe bombs and guns to target students

  • The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased for the fifth week in a row to its lowest level since late December, the average rate now sits at 6.85% down from 6.87% last week

  • The Internal Revenue Service started conducting mass layoffs today and about 6,700 IRS employees will be fired

  • 20% of job seekers have been looking for 10 to 12 months or longer with no luck at landing a job, per Fortune

  • DOW down 1.01% / S&P down .43%

  • Three buses exploded in parking lots south of Tel Aviv, Israel today in what Israeli police say is a suspected terror attack, thankfully no injuries were reported and an investigation is underway

Bonus: A wild look at the change in time spent on different activities between 2010 and 2023

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