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Agents2026-06-10 · source-backed
Per OpenAI's changelog, Computer Use sees, clicks, and types in foreground Windows and macOS apps (excluded in EEA/UK/Switzerland at launch), steerable from iOS, Android, or a Mac. Goal mode, where you define an outcome plus success criteria and let it iterate, is now generally available across app, IDE extension, and CLI. Codex keeps drifting from coding assistant toward autonomous desktop agent for testing and bug-hunting. Worth a serious look if your QA is still manual click-throughs.
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Sites lets you create, deploy, and inspect web apps hosted by OpenAI directly from the Codex app, and Computer Use can now see, click, and type in Windows applications while testing and debugging (OpenAI). The Bedrock catalog also picked up GPT-5.5. The agent that writes the a...
OpenAI just turned Codex from a coding assistant into a desktop operating system for AI agents. The April 16 update adds background computer use. Multiple agents can click, type, and navigate macOS apps via their own cursors without interrupting your workflow. You keep working...
AgentsDock took 66 points on HN on September 12 as an open-source IDE for agentic AI research. It runs Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sessions across macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android, keeps terminals alive through persistent tmux sessions, renders plots, images and video...
Released June 17, the Copilot app is a desktop home for agent-driven development built natively on GitHub, moving Copilot beyond the IDE. It pairs with the now-GA Copilot SDK and sandboxes for headless and autonomous workflows. (GitHub) This positions Copilot as a CLI/app-firs...
A standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta released September 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot; the releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on September 11, v0.0.27 on September 13 and v0.0.28 on September 15, so it's shipping daily (GitHub). It...
On July 9 the standalone Codex app merged into ChatGPT desktop for macOS and Windows, keeping a dedicated coding surface alongside Chat and Work modes, plus inline diff editing, side-panel PR review, faster Computer Use on GPT-5.6, and multi-repository projects. The tiering: S...
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