OpenAI is putting its focus on AI infrastructure with Stargate at a time when rivals like China's DeepSeek are closing the gap on its AI models.

Indian book publishers and their international counterparts have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New Delhi, a representative said on Friday, the latest in a series of global cases seeking to stop the ChatGPT chatbot accessing proprietary content.

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The AI assistant will first be made available to subscribers of ChatGPT Pro, a $200 a month subscription, and eventually roll out into the free version of ChatGPT.

The company says the CUA’s reasoning technique, which they call an “inner monologue,” helps the model understand intermediate steps and adapt to unexpected input. Under the hood, CUA takes screenshots of web pages and uses a virtual mouse and keyboard to navigate.

To carry out tasks on the web, Operator uses a new model called Computer-Using Agent (CUA), which combines GPT-4o's vision skills with more advanced reasoning. That combination lets it interact with the menus, controls, and text fields on a web page without the need for a custom API.

AI is exciting, powerful, and controversial, and some critics doubt the tech delivers on its promise. But the next big wave of AI ‘agents’ may prove genuinely helpful.

We may see OpenAI’s agent tool, Operator, released sooner rather than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base suggest that Operator will be available as an

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