An OpenAI exec says she was diagnosed with breast cancer and that ChatGPT has helped her navigate it

• Kate Rouch, OpenAI's chief marketing officer, said she was diagnosed with breast cancer. • Rouch said she is expected to make a full recovery and urged other women to prioritize their health. • She said she leaned on OpenAI's ChatGPT to navigate her treatment.

Kate Rouch, the chief marketing officer at OpenAI, shared on Friday that she was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer weeks after assuming the role, which she called her "dream job," in December.

In a thread posted on X, Rouch said she was sharing her story to help other women, adding, "We can't control what happens to us--but we can choose how we face it. My biggest lesson: no one fights alone."

Prior to joining OpenAI as the company's first CMO, Rouch was CMO at Coinbase and, before that, spent over a decade at Meta, incl