OpenAI: 1B weekly active users
OpenAI announced it now has approximately one billion weekly active users of ChatGPT, reflecting massive consumer adoption of the AI assistant.
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TWiT 1089: Robot Butt Crack - Anthropic Banned, But Winning
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Jun 22, 2026
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Simply CX & Ethos Ad Reads / Father's Day Interlude
At 50:30 · chapter starts 48:20
Leo pivots to a sponsored segment for Simply CX, Microsoft's customer experience podcast hosted by Nicole McKinley, highlighting an airline contact center case study that reduced average handle time by 30% using AI. He then delivers a personal Ethos life insurance ad tied to Father's Day — reflecting on becoming a parent and the immediate instinct to protect his family — directing listeners to ethos.com/twit for same-day coverage with no medical exam.
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