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OpenAI just went global with GPT-5.6 and rolled out ChatGPT Work, its most ambitious AI agent yet—designed to pull information from your work apps and generate everything from presentations to web apps in seconds. This puts OpenAI head-to-head with Google and Anthropic, all while resetting usage limits and tripling custom instruction capacity for power users. The stakes: AI agents are rapidly moving from hype to daily reality, but infrastructure and scaling hiccups could bottleneck this radical shift in how teams get work done.

But here's the catch—just as OpenAI ramps up, Apple is taking it to court over alleged trade secret theft, targeting both OpenAI and its hardware spinout. If Apple wins even a temporary block, OpenAI’s hardware experiments—including a rumored screenless AI device—could stall overnight, and its hiring pipeline from Apple may freeze. Add to that the New York Times-led push to sanction OpenAI for allegedly stonewalling in the copyright lawsuit, and the legal headwinds are impossible to ignore. Legal battles could impact everything from enterprise procurement checklists to OpenAI's IPO timing, especially with a $1 trillion valuation in sight.

Based on reporting from The Guardian, Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Verge.

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