AI Weekly Malaysia

OpenAI launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT that lets users sort, analyze, edit, draft, send, and delete text messages via the chatbot. The plug-in runs locally on the user's machine and OpenAI says it doesn't create an index of all messages, though specifics remain unclear. It also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work for professional use.

Why: If you build AI agents that take real-world actions on behalf of users, this is a concrete example of the approval-flow tradeoff: OpenAI explicitly discourages persistent auto-approval because it removes the last human checkpoint before an agent sends a message as you. Consider whether your own agent workflows need a similar review gate before irreversible actions. The local-execution privacy claim is worth probing if you're evaluating similar plug-in architectures.