A wall between two rooms is taken down: in one a figure chats over coffee, in the other the same figure now builds a web page on a big screen, all in one open space.

Next to the open room a separate third door stays closed off, and a small group of figures is let in first while a longer line waits outside.

A single shared water tank feeds two taps, one for conversation and one for coding, and a busy figure drains it faster than the others.

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Afternoon Brief · November 2nd 2026

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into one

OpenAI told users on Monday that the Chat and Work tabs in the ChatGPT desktop app will become one, so a conversation can move from discussing an idea to having ChatGPT build the website or presentation, or carry out web tasks, without switching modes. Codex stays a separate tab. Selected users get it first; there is no date for everyone else. The email said most users will not notice a change, but heavier users may hit limits more often, because ChatGPT and Codex draw from one allowance from December. Anthropic put Claude's chat and Cowork on one screen in September. SourcesB

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BOpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs (TechCrunch)techcrunch.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 2nd 2026.

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