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Per OpenAI, the June 11 deal brings secure, pre-configured cloud environments so Codex can take on longer-running work beyond a single session. OpenAI also disclosed Codex now exceeds 5 million weekly active users, up from 3 million in April. Terms undisclosed. The frontier labs are racing to own the full developer workflow, and the cloud-dev-environment layer is the latest piece getting absorbed.
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OpenAI agreed to acquire Ona, which provides secure cloud environments for long-running autonomous agent workflows, folding it into the Codex team so agents run "while your laptop is closed" (OpenAI). In parallel, a Visa partnership integrates payments, tokenization, and secur...
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, six weeks after 5.4. The capability jump is real: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 vs Claude Opus 4.7's 69.4%. The Pro tier nearly doubles Opus 4.7 on FrontierMath Tier 4 at 39.6% vs 22.9%. It uses 40% fewer tokens on Codex tasks while matching 5...
OpenAI announced March 19 it's acquiring Astral, the company behind uv (126M downloads/month), ruff (the Python linter/formatter), and ty (type checker). The team integrates into Codex. The strategic logic is explicit: move Codex beyond code generation into full-lifecycle deve...
gpt-image-2.5-flare as the fast default and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst for precision work, in ChatGPT for every tier, in Codex and in the API simultaneously. OpenAI claims up to 50% faster generation than Images 2.0, better reference-subject preservation and more reliable multi-tu...
OpenAI published the case study. OpenAI Vendor-published and self-reported, so log it as the current claimed ceiling for coding-agent productivity in a security-constrained shop, not as a measurement. ---
CLI, IDE extension, macOS app, and Codex Web all sit on the same harness, linked by a bidirectional JSON-RPC-over-stdio process that hosts core threads and translates client requests into Codex operations. Partners have written clients in Go, Python, TypeScript, Swift, and Kot...
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