ChatGPT is receiving its second new search feature of the week, the company announced on Thursday. Dubbed ChatGPT Search, this tool will deliver real-time data from the internet in response to your chat prompts.
ChatGPT Search appears to be both OpenAI’s answer to Perplexity and a shot across Google’s bow.
“You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for,” the company exclaims in its announcement post. “This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more.”
The chatbot will reportedly access this enhanced web search as needed, depending on the nature of the prompt, but can also be manually engaged by the user. OpenAI has partnered with news and data providers including The Associated Press, Axel Springer, Condé Nast, Financial Times, Hearst, News Corp, Reuters, The Atlantic, Time, and Vox Media, to provide the information for questions on a number of subjects, such as the weather, stocks, sports, current news, and maps. You can expect to see new visuals for those categories of subjects as well.
Taking a lesson from all of the trouble that Perplexity’s sticky-fingered data scraping habits have caused, ChatGPT Search is being explicit about where it is pulling its data from. The AI’s responses will include links to the information’s source, while a Source button below the response will pop open a sidebar with all of those references.
ChatGPT Search is distinctly different from the chat history search feature that the company debuted on Tuesday. Chat history search will find and surface references and statements made in your previous conversations with ChatGPT, without the need for internet queries.
Coincidentally, Google released an exceedingly similar search feature for Gemini on Thursday as well, called Grounding with Google Search.
You can try the new ChatGPT Search for yourself starting today. It’s available across the OpenAI ecosystem including the web portal, as well as the desktop and mobile apps. ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as folks who signed up for the Search waitlist, gain access to the feature today. It’s coming to Enterprise and Edu users “in the next few weeks,” and to free-tier users over the next few months.
Apple has unveiled a new iMac and a 14-inch MacBook Pro, both powered by its new baseline M6 chip. If you’ve been eyeing either device, now is the time to act, as entry-level configurations are becoming harder to get with each product launch.
The devices will be open for pre-order Wednesday, October 28, 2026, from 10:10 AM PT. Meanwhile, deliveries and store stock will arrive on Friday, November 6.
If you make videos, edit photos, or produce music on your Mac, Apple has some good news for you. The company has announced a major update to Apple Creator Studio, packed with new effects and smarter tools. It will arrive on the App Store in November as a free update for existing subscribers.
How does it make video editing easier?
Apple just launched a new entry-level configuration of the 14-inch MacBook Pro.
Even though the design and core hardware are identical, it gets the new M6 processor, which is also debuting in today's iMac refresh.