OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops, part of a push by the ChatGPT maker to improve how artificial intelligence tools field tasks on a computer.

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI), perhaps best known for the core team that produced what became Shortcuts on Apple platforms. More recently, the team has been working on Sky, a context-aware AI interface layer on top of macOS. The financial terms of the acquisition have not been publicly disclosed.

OpenAI needs a web browser if it's going to be truly useful. So Sam Altman will have a big job on his hands to convince people to use his new one.

The planned $15 billion campus in Port Washington, Wisc., is part of OpenAI and Oracle’s previously-announced plan to deliver up to 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate capacity.

On Tuesday, OpenAI announced Atlas, a new web browser with ChatGPT integration, to let you “chat with a page,” as the company puts it. But Atlas also goes beyond the usual LLM back-and-forth with Agent Mode, a “preview mode” feature the company says can “get work done for you” by clicking, scrolling, and reading through various tabs.

Today, OpenAI has launched company knowledge in ChatGPT, a major new capability for subscribers to ChatGPT's paid Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans that lets them call up their company's data directly from third-party workplace apps including Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, HubSpot and combine it in ChatGPT outputs to them.

EXCLUSIVE: Wonder Studios, an AI creative studio backed by OpenAI and Google DeepMind executives, has raised $12 million in seed funding amid a growing trend of AI in the entertainment industry.

ChatGPT Atlas has arrived, challenging Chrome in a big way. But these factors are holding me back from the switch.