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OpenAI wanted to simplify its AI products. You’ve ended up with a salad of ChatGPT, Atlas and Codex

July 11, 2026 by usatoday24

If you have become accustomed to opening the application ChatGPT and always work from the same place, when you update you may find yourself with a quite different experience. OpenAI is reorganizing its products and, with them, the routines of those who had already turned their solutions into tools for daily use. The move promises to concentrate functions, but it also forces us to understand again which application should be opened, which environment corresponds to each task, and which parts of the previous flow continue to work the same. Three main pieces. The desktop application that we knew is now called ChatGPT Classic, while a new ChatGPT application brings together Chat, Work and Codex in the same environment. At the same time, Atlas enters its countdown: the browser will remain available for a few weeks, but OpenAI has set its withdrawal for August 9, 2026. The company thus concentrates more capabilities under a single brand, although during the transition names, applications and functions that are not obvious at first glance will coexist. They are not three versions of the same ChatGPT. Chat continues to be the space to talk, write, search for information, analyze files or resolve specific queries. Work is designed for longer, multi-stage tasks, such as researching a topic, cross-referencing documents, and preparing reports or presentations. Codex keeps the focus on software development and can work with code, repositories, terminals and other technical tools. All three share an application, but each one responds to a different way of working. The new desktop experience. The changes land on both macOS and Windows. Chat access appears in the left panel next to Work and Codex. When selected, the conversation opens within the general environment, although it can be separated into another window. OpenAI thus retains the most recognizable feature of ChatGPT, but makes it a part of a broader product, with a different organization for those who used the previous application. Atlas, in retreat. OpenAI is moving some of its capabilities to the new app’s built-in browser and to a extension for chrome. The architecture also includes a remote browser from which agents can complete tasks. Anyone who used Atlas as their regular browser will have to prepare for the move: the bookmarks they want to keep can be exported to Chrome, while cookies and passwords can be moved to the new application. Open tabs and browsing history are not transferred automatically. There are alternatives outside. Google is taking Gemini to Chrome itself to understand the open page, summarize content, compare information between multiple tabs, and, in supported accounts, complete multi-step actions. The deployment continues to be limited by region and Spain is not currently among the supported territories. Comet by Perplexitymaintains the browser-agnostic formula and is available on Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone and iPad. Perplexity Pro users can also choose between models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The idea behind the changes. OpenAI wants ChatGPT to stop being just a chatbot and become the gateway to practically its entire ecosystem. Instead of maintaining separate apps for chatting, scheduling, or browsing, concentrate those functions under one brand. The commitment is reminiscent of the evolution of other large technological platforms, which over time have absorbed previously separate tools to reduce fragmentation and turn a single application into the center of the experience. Background. OpenAI wanted to reduce the complexity of the selector with the arrival of GPT-5but encountered users who did not see the models as interchangeable parts. Some depended on GPT-4o for specific jobs; others preferred his creative abilities and his way of conversing. The company backtracked and offered it again to paying users, before permanently removing it from ChatGPT on February 13, 2026. Perhaps in a few months this transition will be easier than it seems today. But the change brings to mind a well-known idea in software design: We don’t just learn to use a tool, we also build habits around it. When these habits are changed suddenly, the adaptation period becomes as much a part of the experience as the new functions. OpenAI’s challenge will be to make the integration easier for the user than the collection of products it aims to replace. Images | OpenAi In Xataka | The new Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark 1.1 have a groundbreaking bet: to make 90% of their rivals at 20% of their price

Summer has been so hard that it has taken to the most summer ingredient in the salad: tomato

September 27, 2025 by usatoday24

The arrival of the rains this year seemed to bring a thread of hope to a battered agricultural sector for drought months. The news that comes to us could not be more different: grapes, citrus, bananas… For one reason or on the other, the crops are not fulfilling expectations, and the most recent example has been put by the tomato. 76 million. The tomato sector in Extremadura He has taken stock This year’s harvest and has not been precisely optimistic: a “ruin” is like the union of small farmers and ranchers from Extremadura (UPA-UCE) defined it in a Recent statement. The Extremadura Agrarian Organization figure at 76 million euros the annual losses of tomato producers after this year’s harvest. Double problem. The Sector Association points to A double problem: On the one hand, “ruinous prices (taxes by) the industrial sector”. Prices that, according to the association do not allow to cover the costs associated with production. The price problem is linked to the second of the problems of this campaign: that of production. According to association data, for this campaign the hiring for this campaign was based on an expected productivity of 93 tons per hectare on average. In Extremadura, real productivity has ended up being lower, about 82 tons per hectare. Lower productivity, lower production. This has been reflected in a bad harvest, with a production remarkably lower than that originally hired, 20% lower, according to UPA-UCE data. The main reason in this fall in production is for the sector, in meteorology. A climate not so propitious. Everything seemed to indicate that the meteorology would be favorable this year: months of elevated rainfall or, the less normal, they served not only to conclude the dry episode that affected our environment for several years; The hydrological bonanza also served for reservoirs to recover filling levels that had not been seen in years. However, the summer of 2025 was not consistent with what was seen in the previous months, but it brought us a Dry and very warm summera summer with two heat waves especially severe both in intensity and in duration. The result: weaker plants. And with more problems, they explain from UPA-UCE. Echoes from other fields. The story is repeated in several sectors. The arrival of the rains seemed to bring new hopes to the agricultural sector, however, the expected increase in harvest has also been translating into lower prices In origin, something that already supposed in itself a problem for many farmers. The problem has been even greater in sectors like grapeswhere expectations are not being met and now producers must face the low prices of a high offer, but with a lower production to the expected. In Xataka | During centuries Galicia was a thriving land of olive groves with unique varieties in the world. What changed it is still a mystery Image | Czapp ÁPád

We already know where the microplastics get the lettuce that you eat in the salad: from the air

May 2, 2025 by usatoday24

At this point of 2025, the idea that everything (Absolutely everything) It is full of microplastics. Plants are no exception; nor, of course, the vegetables we consume. The matter is that, for a long time, we have assumed that these compounds entered them through roots, soil and water. It is not exactly like that. No? And where do they come from? Well, a few days ago a Chinese research group published in the magazine ‘Nature’ The first solid evidence that supports the idea that one of the main routes for these microplastics is air. And it is in a lot of environments: Tianjin scientists collected all kinds of leaves, herbs and vegetables of urban and rural environments. In all, they found plastic particles in the foliar fabric. In the most polluted sites, concentrations of up to 10,000 nanograms per gram of dry weight. Above all, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS). And where do they enter? That is something that is yet to be confirmed, but everything seems to sign up for stomata (small openings formed by cells) and cutt it (a membrane covered by insoluble waxes, “Ideal for absorbing microplastics“). Once inside, the compounds move inside the plants using the vascular beam, are distributed by different tissues and accumulate in hair structures called ‘trichomes’, a kind of fitological ‘sinks’. A big problem … The Chinese study demonstrates that accumulated absorption and accumulation of atmospheric microplastics It is generalized. But there are keys that help us better understand the circulation of these compounds: for example, that the outdoor plants had between 10 and 100 times more pet than those grown in greenhouse. And that the efficiency of the absorption of the leaves is extremely low (around 0.05%); That is why this route has been discarded repeatedly. However, given the little evidence we have about how microplastics enter the soil and water, this route begins to take shape. And, we like it or not, right now it is very difficult to control. And, of course, even if we don’t know what they do … In our body, yes that data like these raised many doubts about what happens if we discover that (as we intuit) is a serious problem. Because, in short, Our control capacity It is extremely limited. Image | Killari Hotaru | Kasturi Laxmi Mohit In Xataka | Our problem with microplastics is so huge that they already appear even in human testicles

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