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OpenAI has launched what it calls workspace agents inside ChatGPT, powered by its Codex model. The tools can write code, draft Slack replies, and generate reports autonomously. It marks a meaningful shift from chatbot to something closer to a digital coworker, and raises real questions about oversight in the office.
On a related and cautionary note, the prestigious law firm Sullivan and Cromwell has admitted that AI hallucinations made their way into an actual bankruptcy filing. Internal safeguards were bypassed, resulting in fabricated legal citations in a case tied to an alleged scam network. It is a reminder that even elite institutions are still learning where the guardrails need to go.
And in the world of crypto taxation, Kraken filed fifty-six million tax forms for this past year alone. Roughly one third of those reported transactions worth less than one dollar. The numbers expose a glaring problem with current tax law, which offers no minimum exemption for small crypto payments or staking rewards, burying both users and exchanges under an avalanche of paperwork.
Those are today's big stories. Stay curious, Tech Beat out.
