OpenAI buys the maker of Mac automation app Sky (www.engadget.com)

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, the team behind the Mac automation app Sky (the same company that created Workflows, later bought by Apple and turned into Shortcuts). Sky is built around agentic AI—models that “understand what’s on your screen and can take action using your apps”—and the whole team will join OpenAI as the company says it will fold Sky’s deep macOS integration and product craftsmanship into ChatGPT. The move follows a string of recent OpenAI product and acquisition steps, including the release of ChatGPT Atlas (a desktop browser) and the purchase of AI investing app Roi. For AI/ML practitioners and product builders this underscores a push from OpenAI into system-level automation and tighter OS integration, not just conversational models. Technical implications include expanded agentic capabilities inside ChatGPT (direct app control, richer UI-context understanding, and deeper macOS APIs) and faster iteration on cross-app automation flows. It also intensifies platform competition with Apple’s revamped Siri (which aims for third-party app actions in 2026), and raises operational questions around privacy, permissions, and reliability when models take autonomous actions on users’ devices.