What OpenAI’s New Task-Crossover Research Can Teach Freelancers About Owning the Handoff in 2026

The most useful line in today’s AI news is not that AI can do more work. It is that AI is changing who does the work. In a new OpenAI Economic Research report, researchers analyzed more than 800,000 work-related messages from U.S. ChatGPT users. They found that 16.8% of work-related messages crossed into tasks associated …