OpenAI extends Codex into an enterprise automation platform with six business plugins

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OpenAI announced enterprise-focused enhancements to Codex including six new business plugins spanning sales, data analytics, creative production, product design, public equity investing, and investment banking, plus new annotations and a Sites capability. The move explicitly reframes Codex from a developer coding agent into a general enterprise automation platform — mirroring Anthropic's Managed Agents push and signaling that the coding-agent vendors are now competing for the broader knowledge-work automation market. Builders should note the convergence: coding agents and business-process agents are collapsing into one product surface.