OpenAI wants its new tool to do your work for you and with you
Ars Technica AI · Kyle Orland · 2026-07-09
OpenAI releases ChatGPT Work, an agentic productivity tool that sustains multi-hour automated tasks, manages entire workflows end-to-end, and includes event-driven scheduled task automation.
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Topics: ai-agentsworkflow-automationopenai-productsagentic-ai
Claims
- ChatGPT Work resolves a key limitation of OpenAI's earlier Atlas browser Agent Mode, which stopped automated tasks after a few minutes.
- The tool can sustain work on a single project for hours and automate entire workflows from research to finished deliverables.
- ChatGPT Work integrates Scheduled Tasks, an event-driven scheduling system that runs tasks on a timetable or in response to monitored events.
- The tool requires user approval before executing important actions, maintaining a human-in-the-loop oversight model.
- OpenAI challenges users to evaluate the tool by giving it tasks they already know well, such as budget analysis or sales prep.
Key quotes
stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work
automate entire workflows, going from customer research to a campaign brief to locally tailored marketing assets
take repetitive tasks off your plate