Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Friday, July 18th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI has a new agent that can control your entire computer. You might soon be able to put crypto in your 401k. Why is Apple suing a prominent YouTuber? And in the weekend long reads, the one article that has done the most to

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OpenAI has debuted ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step

tasks powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users.

Quoting the Verge, the company said the new tool can perform tasks like looking at a user's

calendar to brief them on upcoming client meetings, planning and purchasing ingredients to make a

family breakfast, and creating a slide deck based on its analysis of competing companies.

The model behind ChatGPT agent, which has no specific name, was trained on complex tasks that

require multiple tools like a text browser, visual browser, and terminal where users can import their own data

via reinforcement learning, the same technique used for all of OpenAI's reasoning models.

OpenAI said that chat GPT agent combines the capabilities of both operator and deep research

to its existing AI tools.

To develop the new tool, the company combined the teams behind both operator and deep

research into one unified team, end quote. And quoting TechCrunch, OpenAI's new agent can

access chat GPT connectors, allowing users to connect apps like Gmail and GitHub, so that the agent

can find relevant information to your prompts. Furthermore, OpenAI says ChatG GPT agent has access to a terminal and can use

APIs to access certain apps. The tool combines several capabilities from OpenAI's previous

agentic tools, including operator's ability to click around on websites, as well as deep research's

ability to synthesize information from dozens of websites into a concise research report.

Open AI says users will be able to interact with the agent simply by prompting ChatGPT in natural language. The model underlying

chat GPT agent offers state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, according to OpenAI.

To activate the tool, users can select Agent mode in ChatGPT's drop-down menu of tools, end quote.

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