Full Summary
This Sunday morning, OpenAI rolls out a major update: ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can now link their bank accounts directly to the AI, transforming it into a personalized financial advisor. Both Reuters and The South India Times confirm this feature, available for Pro subscribers, lets users track spending, manage subscriptions, and analyze investments. To enable this, users connect their financial accounts via Plaid, which supports over 12,000 institutions including American Express and Chase. Once linked, ChatGPT provides a dashboard showing balances, transaction history, active subscriptions, and even stock portfolios, as detailed by ARY News and Trend Hunter. It can also identify liabilities like credit card debt. However, ChatGPT cannot access full account numbers or make changes, and users maintain control, able to disconnect accounts at any time, with data removed within 30 days. The new GPT-5.5 model offers improved financial reasoning, and Intuit support is coming soon. But then, there's more: explosion.com and The Economic Times report OpenAI is bringing its AI-driven coding tool, Codex, to the ChatGPT mobile app for iPhone and Android. This allows developers to remotely supervise their AI agent as it writes and runs code, boosting productivity on the go. What nobody expected: Apple users are finding macOS moving the ChatGPT program to the trash, flagging it as malicious. hi-Tech.ua explains this is due to urgent certificate changes by OpenAI, not a security breach. Users who didn't update by May 8th are affected and simply need to download the latest client. Finally, Mashable brings an important safety update: ChatGPT users can now designate a "Trusted Contact." If the AI detects serious self-harm discussions, this contact receives a brief notification from OpenAI, aiming to connect users with real-world support without sharing chat transcripts. This means your personal financial data is now accessible to an AI, potentially simplifying budgeting but raising new privacy concerns, while developers gain new on-the-go coding power, and a critical safety net is added for vulnerable users.