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TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Launches Product to Build ‘AI Co-Workers’

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Spotify will sell physical books in the U.S. and U.K. And Germany fines Amazon over price-filtering tools. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, February 5th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.9

OpenAI launched Frontier today, an AI platform that helps companies build, deploy, and oversee AI agents. The agents will be

0:46.9

able to process information from various sources and complete tasks like working with files and

0:52.4

running code. In a call with reporters, OpenAI's

0:55.5

CEO of applications said the agents can collaborate with humans and be used alongside

1:00.5

other agents developed by OpenAI competitors like Anthropic and Microsoft. Frontier is

1:06.3

currently available to a limited set of customers. The company didn't disclose how much it'll cost. It also said

1:12.5

some of Frontier's initial customers include Intuit, State Farm, and Uber. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street

1:18.5

Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. Spotify will soon offer physical books.

1:25.5

We exclusively report that starting the spring, the Swedish

1:29.2

streaming service will allow premium subscribers in the U.S. and UK to buy books via its app through a

1:35.9

partnership with bookshop.org. Spotify will receive an affiliate fee for each purchase. The

1:42.0

offering will be another point of competition for Amazon, which is the

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