OpenAI Quietly Expands ChatGPT Operator to 15 New Countries and Adds Real-Time Source Verification to Search

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Over the weekend before June 22 OpenAI shipped a batch of ChatGPT updates: Operator, its autonomous web agent, expanded to 15 additional countries (booking flights, reservations, simple government forms and subscription management), and Search gained a confidence indicator showing how recently a cited source was verified and whether multiple independent sources corroborate it. Memory was also refreshed for fresher context. The source-verification surface is the builder-relevant piece — a step toward making agent-cited claims auditable at read time. Note: details are drawn from secondary roundups, so treat specifics as provisional pending OpenAI's own release notes.