Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s number two job
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s number two job

Fidji Simo announced her departure from OpenAI’s senior leadership the way many people learn hard news about their own bodies, gradually and then all at once. In a message on Thursday, she said a three-month medical leave had not gone as hoped, that re…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job

OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to finish the job instead. The company has introduced ChatGPT Work, an agent inside ChatGPT that it says can take action across…

OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch

OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out …

ChatGPT is coming for one of Google’s smartest Chrome features

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Chrome extension brings context-aware AI directly into your browser, challenging Google’s Gemini Side Panel with webpage summaries, explanations, and task automation.

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

OpenAI’s new family of models will continue to power Microsoft’s suite of workplace and productivity apps.

Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company’s AGI chief and is transitioning to being a “part-time advisor,” she said on X. The news follows Simo’s original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the […]

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

OpenAI’s latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it’s moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension. 

ChatGPT can now finish what you started, and that’s a much bigger deal than it sounds

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work could be one of its biggest AI upgrades yet, promising to automate hours of busywork with a single request.

The ChatGPT browser is already dead
The ChatGPT browser is already dead

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be “sunsetting” Atlas and is targeting an […]