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This Monday morning, OpenAI's ChatGPT is facing significant challenges, with multiple reports confirming a partial outage impacting its Work mode and Plus subscribers. BleepingComputer, The Tech Outlook, and SQ Magazine all detail elevated errors and latency, preventing users from starting or continuing tasks. OpenAI acknowledges these issues and is actively working on a solution, though no fix has been provided yet. Meanwhile, a major regulatory shift sees ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox fall under the EU's strictest digital safety laws. Livemint and tech-ish.com both report that these platforms, exceeding 45 million monthly EU users, are now designated as "Very Large Online Search Engines" or "Platforms" under the Digital Services Act. This means they face rigorous requirements, including annual risk assessments and independent audits, with a compliance deadline of late November. In product news, OpenClaw 2.0 has launched its largest update ever, bringing 16,000 changes to the open-source AI agent project. News9live and The Times of India highlight improved accessibility, simpler installation, multi-user collaboration, and support for various AI models like ChatGPT and Claude. This massive overhaul, involving 933 contributors, aims to get users into AI agent conversations faster. Separately, Midjourney introduces a new Edit Mode, allowing users to blend up to four images and attach visuals directly to prompts for enhanced creative workflows, as reported by Geeky Gadgets. And in a strategic move, OpenAI is merging ChatGPT and Codex into a single, unified entity, aiming for a "personal AGI" that converts natural language into actions, according to 36 Kr. This integration is already empowering Mac users, with 9to5Mac describing how Codex, now part of the ChatGPT desktop app, is making complex tasks more accessible for building and automation. The immediate impact is clear: if you rely on ChatGPT Work, your day might be disrupted. More broadly, new EU regulations mean these major AI platforms will operate under tighter scrutiny, potentially leading to changes in how they handle content and user data.