OpenAI has released an early version of its first AI agent. The so-called "operator" can perform typical tasks on the internet, such as finding or searching for something and then placing orders.

Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks.

TechCrunch separately identified the same references to Operator on OpenAI’s website. Here are the three interesting tidbits ...

ChatGPT 5 release date is expected in early 2025, bringing advanced features like better conversations and multimodal support ...

OpenAI is in early talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at as high as $300 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. SoftBank would ...

Going forward, OpenAI plans to expand the availability of Operator beyond ChatGPT Pro to the chatbot’s other tiers. The ...

a website that tracks online service disruptions, registered a sharp spike in outage reports for ChatGPT on Thursday morning. Attempts to open the artificial intelligence tool developed by OpenAI ...

OpenAI states that Operator can “see” through screenshots and “interact” using mouse and keyboard actions, enabling it to perform tasks on the web without custom API integrations ...

OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models. A spokesperson said the ChatGPT ...

On Tuesday, Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that OpenAI and Microsoft, its biggest investor, are looking into evidence that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s intellectual property to build its ...

Why? The early reports suggest that DeepSeek is similar in design to some of the recent AI "reasoning" systems such as OpenAI's o1, in that it combines a large language model with the capability ...