OpenAI pushed through an update to ChatGPT that erases one of the borders that had kept it from being a truly seamless experience.

As OpenAI tries to keep people from ever wanting to leave their ChatGPT windows by introducing apps and shopping, using voice inputs was still a bit of a clunky experience, a holdover from the not-truly-AI voice assistants like Siri and Google Assistant.

Now that it’s here, I believe we’ve crossed a Rubicon to where interacting with AIs takes a quiet but noticeable leap more toward a two-way conversation rather than the prompt—listen—wait—follow-up procedure we’ve been used to.

OpenAI announced the update in an X.com post on Tuesday, November 25, 2025.

what’s changed?

Perhaps I’d been too conditioned by Siri to grow comfortable with a nebulous, glowing orb

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