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This Friday, OpenAI announces a major strategic shift, discontinuing its Atlas browser and launching "ChatGPT Work," a powerful new AI agent. Both Reuters and the BBC confirm OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas AI browser, launched just last October. The company states users prefer existing browsers with enhanced AI capabilities rather than a new standalone one. Instead, Atlas's agentic features will integrate into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Google Chrome extension. This extension, competing with Google's Gemini Side Panel, will summarize pages, answer questions about content, and perform multi-step tasks directly from the browser. The ChatGPT desktop app will also gain full browsing capabilities, including a cloud-hosted browser for remote tasks. Simultaneously, OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Work, powered by the new GPT-5.6 model and its Codex coding agent. GIGAZINE and Crypto Briefing highlight its ability to handle complex tasks across multiple applications and files, creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even web apps. This tool, available for Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers, can automate repetitive work and manage long-running projects, even connecting to services like Slack and Google Drive. Techgenyz reports a "Computer Use" feature allows the AI to interact with your desktop, clicking buttons and moving files. Finally, OpenAI is rolling out GPT-Live, a new voice model that enables more natural, two-way conversations with real-time translation and improved pause detection, as reported by TelecomTalk and 디지털투데이. This means your daily digital interactions are about to become significantly more integrated and automated, with AI performing tasks directly within your browser and across your applications.