OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows
THE SO WHAT
A desktop-native agent that can pull context across apps and files turns the OS into the orchestration layer for knowledge work. This compresses the value of shallow SaaS “assistants” and forces internal teams to decide where they want governance and logging—at the agent, OS, or app level.
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