Work Agents Learn the Office
OpenAI and Meta both spent Thursday showing agents that can work across files, apps, tools, and long projects. Today's episode follows the product surface first, then the policy and research work trying to catch up to agents that no longer stay inside a single chat window.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work demo showed finance analysis, local files, browser tabs, app control, and shareable hosted sites as one work surface.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model demo introduced programmatic tool calling, higher reasoning levels, and subagent delegation in Codex.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 launch post framed its new model…
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