A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent

In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me:

• Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.

• Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings.

• Booked a Valentine’s Day date for me and my wife.

• Scheduled a haircut.

It did these tasks mostly autonomously, although I did have to nudge it along from time to time and occasionally rescue it from a loop of failed attempts.

If you’re just catching up — or if you’ve been distracted by the DeepSeek news this week,…