🗞️OpenAI helping to create "AI coworkers"

February 5th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• OpenAI launched Frontier, which is a new enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents dubbed "AI coworkers" that autonomously handle tasks like file creation, app navigation, web browsing, code execution, and integrations across business systems

• The Trump administration finalized a rule through the Office of Personnel Management creating the "Schedule Policy/Career" category which strips civil service protections from up to 50,000 federal policy-related employees, allowing at-will firings for poor performance, misconduct, or obstructing presidential directives without appeals

• Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly urged House Oversight Committee Republicans to hold open hearings with cameras for her and former President Bill Clinton's scheduled depositions on the Epstein files (her on Feb. 26th and him on Feb. 27th), accusing them of ignoring prior sworn statements and playing partisan games after the Clintons agreed to testify to avoid contempt votes

• The Trump administration has officially unveiled TrumpRx.gov, a new government-run consumer website that directs patients to pharmaceutical manufacturers' direct-to-consumer sites for discounted prescription drugs, bypassing insurance for out-of-pocket purchases…it stems from deals with over 14 drugmakers like Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, and Merck under Trump's "most favored nation" pricing policy

• Reddit announced a $1 billion share buyback program following strong Q4 2025 earnings

• Pizza Hut plans to close about 250 underperforming U.S. locations in the first half of 2026, which is roughly 3–4% of its domestic stores

• U.S.-based employers announced 108,435 planned job cuts in January 2026, up 205% from December and 118% from January 2025

• U.S. job openings fell to 6.5 million in December, the lowest number since September 2020, down 386,000 from the November figure, and below the expectations 7.25 million

• Bitcoin fell below $63,000 today, the lowest since November 2024 and erasing more than 44% from its $126,000 October peak

• DOW down 1.20% / S&P down 1.23%

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