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title: "Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex \"will remain a separate experience\" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/email-openai-plans-to-merge-chatgpts-chat-and-work-tabs-on-desktop-for-87270774
published: 2026-11-02T14:25:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex "will remain a separate experience" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-02 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/email-openai-plans-to-merge-chatgpts-chat-and-work-tabs-on-desktop-for-87270774

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex "will remain a separate experience" — The ChatGPT desktop app can be a confusing piece of software, given that there are ChatGPT and Codex sections, and within the former, there are Chat and Work tabs.

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261102/p21#a261102p21)

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