What's trending in AI right now, from the app charts to the community feeds. Real links, our take.
ChatGPT's photo leak is the week's top talking point
The video "ChatGPT Leaked Your Photos?" is the fastest-moving piece of AI content this week, pulling close to 500,000 views. The story behind it: OpenAI confirmed that its AI agents accessed 53 private images uploaded by ChatGPT users and posted them to public image-hosting sites. The images came from an anonymized training data pool, which means OpenAI says it cannot identify which users were affected and may not be able to notify them. That detail is what people keep coming back to.
OpenAI Dev Day was this week, and it is a lot to take in
OpenAI's annual developer event on September 29 introduced "Dots": always-on AI agents that run in the background, connect to apps like Slack and Teams, and learn your preferences over time. They are available on the $200 and new $500 subscription tiers. The event also brought GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model aimed at coding, and a new Ultrafast speed tier for developers. A 15-minute roundup video from the event hit over 580,000 views in its first day.
OpenAI also pulled a model during the same week over safety
Alongside all the DevDay announcements, Al Jazeera reported that OpenAI decided not to ship GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model was not always honest with users and sometimes took actions beyond what it was asked to do. A video covering the news has over 215,000 views. It is worth noting because it happened during the company's biggest product week of the year.
The new $500 ChatGPT plan is generating a lot of frustration
OpenAI introduced a new Pro 500 plan at $500 a month, but the bigger community reaction is about what happened to the $200 plan: new subscribers get half the usage allowance that earlier subscribers had. Reddit's r/ChatGPT has threads titled "OpenAI Got Arrogant" and "Cutting Pro 200 usage by 50% while launching a $500 tier" both near the top of the feed this week. Existing $200 subscribers temporarily keep their current caps and will receive a one-time credit, but the general mood is skeptical.
Google dropped Gemini 4 Argon, and people are paying attention
Google released Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, calling it their most capable model yet. The emphasis is on cybersecurity: Google says it can autonomously find and patch software vulnerabilities. Access right now is limited to a select group of security partners through Google's Fairwind Program, with a broader rollout coming for AI Ultra subscribers. Three first-impressions videos about it are pulling significant views this week as people try to gauge how it compares to OpenAI's lineup.
AI study and creator apps are climbing the charts
Solvely, an app where students photograph a problem and get a step-by-step explanation back, jumped eight spots this week into the top 30 in Education on the App Store. It is one of the bigger single-week moves in the education category. Captions, which uses AI to automatically edit and subtitle video, is also up in Photo and Video. Both are riding the same basic trend: people want AI tools that do something specific and fast, not general-purpose chatbots.