OpenAI is making its biggest play for the office
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Merging Codex into ChatGPT and shipping GPT-5.6 as a workhorse model is a push to own the horizontal “work surface” on desktop. If you're building AI-native tools, assume your competition is now a default-installed assistant that spans code, docs, and workflow orchestration.
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