OpenAI says it has over a million business customers using ChatGPT - and it isn't stopping there (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI announced it has passed one million paying business customers worldwide — a milestone it calls the "fastest‑growing business platform in history" — alongside a reported 800 million weekly users of ChatGPT. The customer base spans industries from finance and healthcare to retail, with concrete wins such as Indeed using OpenAI APIs to boost applications by 20% and hires by 13%, and Lowe’s deploying an in‑store assistant (MyLow Companion) across 1,700+ stores. OpenAI says the one‑million figure includes organizations paying via ChatGPT for Work and direct API consumption, signaling broad enterprise traction beyond consumer chat use. Technically, OpenAI is pushing businesses from consumption to construction: companies can plug apps directly into ChatGPT, build commerce workflows via the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), and create enterprise agents faster with AgentKit. New “company knowledge” capabilities let ChatGPT reason across Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub and other systems — effectively enabling retrieval‑augmented workflows and action-taking across corporate data sources. For the AI/ML community this amplifies demand for agent frameworks, connectors, secure RAG pipelines, model customization and governance tooling, and creates a large, standardized platform for deploying production agents and APIs at scale.