A profile of former Google DeepMind employee Thibault Sottiaux, now OpenAI's head of core products tasked with combining ChatGPT and Codex into a super app (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-interview-with-openai-cod…
China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/politics/china-ai-anthropic-openai-mythos-chatgpt.html
When OpenAI killed the ChatGPT app, I burned some Fable Sol 5.6 tokens to create an Electron wrapper for their website (mac only, tested on OS 26 only). The moment I was done, they dropped ChatGPT Classic. But you might prefer it, though, so here it is. CatGPT
https://github.com/abandoned-industrie…
Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/lawsuit-chatgpt-validated-suicidal-womans-distrust-of-crisis-lines/
Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p117#a260611p117
Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT "Super App", which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/chatgpt-gets-to-work/
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-is-discontinuing-chatgpt-atlas-its-standalone-desktop-browser/…
OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/10/openai-china-ai-data-center-tariffs-chatgpt
Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…