How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including Spotify, Figma, Canva, and others (techcrunch.com)

OpenAI has rolled out built-in app integrations for ChatGPT that let users sign into third‑party services and ask the assistant to act on their behalf—e.g., create Spotify playlists that appear in your Spotify app, generate Canva designs or Figma diagrams, search and book hotels via Booking.com or Expedia, recommend Coursera courses, and surface Zillow listings. You can invoke an app by typing its name at the start of a prompt or install multiple connectors from Settings → Apps and Connectors; the product guides you through a sign‑in/account‑linking flow and you can disconnect apps anytime. OpenAI also says more partners (DoorDash, Uber, Target, Walmart, OpenTable) are coming later this year, though the rollout is currently limited to the U.S. and Canada. For AI/ML practitioners and product teams this is meaningful because it turns ChatGPT from a passive conversational model into an action‑oriented agent with account-level access to user data and services. That enables seamless automation—creating playlists, generating editable designs, building roadmaps from uploaded files, or filtering travel options—while also introducing privacy, permission, and security considerations: account linking exposes personal data (playlists, history, bookings) and requires careful consent, scoped permissions, and auditability. Technically, these integrations extend ChatGPT’s context with user-specific signals via OAuth‑style connectors and raise product design questions about data handling, model conditioning on private data, and safeguards for sensitive operations.