TechCrunch reports a growing graveyard of AI products and bets

TechCrunch reports that S&P Global Market Intelligence estimates about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents. The article highlights OpenAI’s short-lived attempt to turn ChatGPT into a broader “super app”: on July 9 it combined Chat, Codex and Work modes, renamed the familiar version ChatGPT Classic, then rolled the redesign back after users said the interface was confusing and cluttered. It also notes that ChatGPT Atlas was discontinued on August 9 and Sora shut down in March 2026.