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Additional stories include OpenAI developing a 'super app' merging ChatGPT, a browser, and coding tools; the Pentagon flagging Anthropic's foreign workforce as a security risk; Super Micro's co-founder charged with smuggling AI tech to China; and a look at how psychedelic drug trials are falling short of their hype. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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