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As of June 26, per Releasebot, OpenAI removed GPT-4.5 from ChatGPT, migrating existing conversations to GPT-5.5, and rolled Codex Remote to general availability on all plans. You can now start or resume coding work on a connected Mac or Windows host directly from the mobile app. Kicking off a refactor from your phone and reviewing it later is a genuinely different workflow. The GPT-4.5 retirement is a reminder to never hardcode a model name you don't control.
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/permissions now supports named profiles with custom profiles displayed, Codex Remote is generally available for driving a connected Mac or Windows host from the ChatGPT mobile app, and system proxy routing including PAC and WPAD landed (releasebot). Named profiles are the fea...
Release notes also cover ChatGPT Work, powered by GPT-5.6, which pulls context from a team's connected tools. The character limit is the quietly significant one. 1,500 characters is a summary. 5,000 is roughly where a persistent instruction block can carry real style specifica...
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...
The July 18 release notes bundle fixes that restore the full window, which means it had been silently degraded for some unspecified period. If you benchmarked those models in Codex over the past few weeks and found long-context performance underwhelming, you may have been meas...
The July 18 redesign for all plans on macOS and Windows adds a separated layout, unified Recents, native Projects, and Work conversations syncing to the cloud across every client. The split is the interesting part: OpenAI is formalizing a boundary between personal and organiza...
VentureBeat's Carl Franzen reports GPT-Live's continuous-listening-with-interruption model, not turn-based push-to-talk, is now wired into Codex. Full duplex matters specifically for agentic coding because sessions are long-running and interruption-heavy. You need to redirect...
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