# AI News Digest - 2026-06-08

1. OpenAI said "chat is dead" and planned to rebuild ChatGPT as a full‑blown agent app that would bundle coding tools, AI agents, and partner apps such as Canva and Booking.com.

2. Perplexity introduced "Search as Code", which allowed AI models to write their own search pipelines in Python, outperformed OpenAI and Anthropic on key benchmarks, and reduced token costs by up to 85 percent.

3. OpenAI released Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT, which disabled web access, Deep Research, and Agent Mode to make prompt‑injection exfiltration harder while acknowledging the mode did not fully prevent such attacks.

4. Researchers identified that small language models failed at rare tasks because frequent tasks repeatedly overwrote learned representations, and demonstrated that increasing the frequency of target tasks in training data could correct the problem without scaling model size.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-chat-is-dead-and-plans-to-rebuild-chatgpt-as-a-full-blown-agent-app/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-chat-is-dead-and-plans-to-rebuild-chatgpt-as-a-full-blown-agent-app/)

[OpenAI says "chat is dead" and plans to rebuild ChatGPT as a full-blown agent app](https://the-decoder.com/openai-says-chat-is-dead-and-plans-to-rebuild-chatgpt-as-a-full-blown-agent-app/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/perplexitys-search-as-code-lets-ai-models-write-their-own-search-pipelines-instead-of-calling-fixed-apis/](https://the-decoder.com/perplexitys-search-as-code-lets-ai-models-write-their-own-search-pipelines-instead-of-calling-fixed-apis/)

[Perplexity's "Search as Code" lets AI models write their own search pipelines instead of calling fixed APIs](https://the-decoder.com/perplexitys-search-as-code-lets-ai-models-write-their-own-search-pipelines-instead-of-calling-fixed-apis/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-new-lockdown-mode-lets-you-disable-web-access-and-more-to-protect-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection/](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-new-lockdown-mode-lets-you-disable-web-access-and-more-to-protect-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection/)

[ChatGPT's new Lockdown Mode lets you disable web access and more to protect sensitive data from prompt injection](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpts-new-lockdown-mode-lets-you-disable-web-access-and-more-to-protect-sensitive-data-from-prompt-injection/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/researchers-pinpoint-why-larger-language-models-pick-up-skills-that-small-ones-miss/](https://the-decoder.com/researchers-pinpoint-why-larger-language-models-pick-up-skills-that-small-ones-miss/)

[Researchers pinpoint why larger language models pick up skills that small ones miss](https://the-decoder.com/researchers-pinpoint-why-larger-language-models-pick-up-skills-that-small-ones-miss/)

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