ChatGPT Becomes an App-Hosting Operating System

13 Oct 2025 David Pierce’s Installer newsletter highlights a big shift in how OpenAI is pitching ChatGPT: not just a chatbot but an “operating system” that hosts apps. Pierce points to OpenAI’s Apps in ChatGPT — you can “open the bot, address an app,” and ask Spotify to make a playlist or Expedia to find flights — and says the workflow “works for me.” The framing is both strategic (owning the OS) and practical: invoking third‑party services directly inside ChatGPT streamlines common tasks and starts to turn the product into an everything app rather than a single-purpose assistant. The issue also flags other AI-adjacent pieces: a touching comic essay at The Oatmeal about what AI-generated art feels like, and a new podcast about real‑world effects of game mechanics. Pierce’s note reads less like hard analysis and more like a curator’s roundup, but the takeaway is clear — OpenAI’s app strategy is accelerating ChatGPT’s move from tool to platform, and conversations about generative AI’s cultural impact (art, entertainment, workflows) are right alongside product changes. Read the full piece for Pierce’s other picks and links. Source