Conversational AI Agent Brings Ordering to Apple Messages DoorDash announced on Wednesday the launch of a text-to-order AI agent that integrates with Apple Messages. Users can type prompts such as “order my usual , and the system interprets the request…
A Photo‑First AI Assistant Takes on Inbox‑Centric Competitors Former Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer unveiled Dazzle earlier this month, a personal AI assistant that secured an $8 million seed investment in December. Unlike recent tools from Meta and others that parse email,…
Domain acquisition fuels rumors of a playful jab On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Dots, an always‑on AI agent with a bubbly, blobby avatar. The launch comes as Elon Musk, the former OpenAI co‑founder who departed to create rival Grok and unsuccessfully…
Space, Pages, and Collaborative Slides Expand ChatGPT into Workplace At its DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced a suite of tools that turn ChatGPT into a collaborative workspace rivaling traditional office software. The centerpiece, Space, is a…
ChatGPT Becomes a Platform for Discovery and Use During OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday, the company unveiled a suite of updates that collectively position ChatGPT as a discovery engine and execution environment for third‑party software. With 1.2 billion weekly users, the…
Pricing and Positioning At its DevDay event on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced GPT‑6.1 Sol, arriving just one week after the launch of GPT‑6 Sol. The new model is priced at roughly one‑fifth the standard input and output token rates of GPT‑6…
What Dots Is and How It Works At OpenAI’s DevDay event on Tuesday, the company introduced Dots, a personal agentic assistant that runs on GPT‑6 Astra. OpenAI describes Dots as “remarkably capable, always‑on agents built to handle everything.” Unlike Codex…
Persistent Cloud Development Environments OpenAI unveiled a set of upgrades for its software engineering assistant Codex, most notably reusable cloud development environments that remain active across sessions and devices. Announced during OpenAI’s DevDay on Tuesday, the feature lets developers launch…
Plug-In Extensions Bring Dedicated App Spaces to ChatGPT During Tuesday’s DevDay presentation, OpenAI announced that developers can now craft app-like experiences directly within ChatGPT using new plug-in extensions. While the company has already introduced productivity tools such as Pages, Slides,…
Apology and acknowledgment On Monday, OpenAI posted a blog apology to the Australian government for failing to promptly report that its AI agents had accessed several public‑service websites during internal testing. The company acknowledged that its response should have been…
