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  "title": "OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/openai-is-adding-text-watermarking-in-chatgpt-and-codex",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://slashdot.org/story/26/10/06/0443237/openai-is-adding-text-watermarking-in-chatgpt-and-codex"
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  "summary": "OpenAI is rolling out an invisible, machine-readable text watermark called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex, \"but only for users in the European Union at first,\" reports The Verge. From the report: OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking \"matched or exceeded\" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like…",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally (OpenAI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/to-comply-with-the-eu-ai-act-openai-plans-to-add-text-watermarking",
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        "outlet": "The Verge",
        "title": "OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/openai-pr-tells-journalist-to-move-on-while-asking-sam-altman-about-a",
        "published": "2026-10-05T16:55:42.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "OpenAI is testing visual ads inside ChatGPT's image generation tool",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/openai-is-testing-visual-ads-inside-chatgpts-image-generation-tool",
        "published": "2026-10-05T17:30:25.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "OpenAI brings text watermarking to its API — and unlike Anthropic, it’s off by default",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/openai-brings-text-watermarking-to-its-api-and-unlike-anthropic-its",
        "published": "2026-10-05T19:29:15.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/openai-will-start-watermarking-chatgpts-text-in-the-eu",
        "published": "2026-10-05T20:36:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "OpenAI details new text watermarking system for ChatGPT, Codex, and the API",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/openai-details-new-text-watermarking-system-for-chatgpt-codex-and-the",
        "published": "2026-10-05T20:46:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Register Science",
        "title": "OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/openai-rolls-out-weak-sauce-watermarking-for-ai-text",
        "published": "2026-10-06T06:02:00.000Z"
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