Signal ChatGPT reaches 900 million weekly users as US executive orders push AI leadership

Summary

As a measure of how widely generative AI has spread, the plan reports that ChatGPT had 900 million weekly users and more than 50 million paying subscribers as of March 2026. It links this scale of use to the broader shift in which AI has become part of daily life and a driver of industrial change. The plan also records a series of US executive actions since President Trump took office. These include orders on removing barriers to American AI leadership, an AI Action Plan, the Genesis Mission and the promotion of advanced AI innovation and security. It adds that the United States has restricted exports of core models such as Mythos, showing that frontier AI is now handled as a matter of economic security.