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OpenAI expands to families and reaffirms Microsoft partnership
July 13, 2026 at 06:21 PM
OpenAI is hiring a product manager for family experiences and has designated GPT 5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- OpenAI is hiring a product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults.
- Sensor Tower estimated that the share of ChatGPT users aged 35 and older rose to 31% in Q2 2026, and nearly one in four U.S. parents used ChatGPT.
- OpenAI has introduced safety measures including parental controls, routing sensitive conversations to reasoning models, and a "Trusted Contact" feature.
- OpenAI announced that GPT 5.6 will become the preferred model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot, amid reports of Microsoft using its own in-house models.