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Welcome to the TechBrew, right home for Friday, March 20th, 26.

I'm Brian McCullough today. ChatGPT is becoming a super app. Does Amazon really want to try its hand out of a smartphone again? Google is making further steps to obviate classic Google

search in that innovator's dilemma way and in the long reads, why has AI gotten worse at writing?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

As I said yesterday, the whole AI race has reconfigured itself the first quarter of this year to

become a chase for stuff like this. OpenAI plans to merge

chat GPT codex and its browser into a desktop super app to simplify the user experience

and focus on engineering and business customers. Quoting the journal, the strategy change

marks a major shift from last year when OpenAI launched a series of standalone products

that didn't always resonate with users and sometimes launched a series of standalone products that didn't

always resonate with users and sometimes created a lack of focus within the company. OpenAI

executives are hoping that unifying its products under one app will allow it to streamline

resources as it seeks to beat back the success of its rival anthropic. OpenAI is seeking to focus

on creating so-called agentic AI capabilities within the new

super app in which artificial intelligence systems can work autonomously on a user's computer

to carry out a variety of tasks, including writing software and analyzing data according to

OpenAI.

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