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Preview as of August 11, bundling ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex, built for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, Fedora 43/44 on x64 and ARM64, with an installer that registers an OpenAI repo so updates flow through apt (TechCrunch). Modest community heat (109 upvotes on r/singularity) but it means Codex now has first-party desktop presence on every major desktop OS.
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Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
Packages the official bundle for Debian/Ubuntu .deb, Fedora and others, including Chat, Work and Codex surfaces. Its existence is the finding: a vendor shipping a desktop agent client for one OS reliably produces a community rebuild for the one it skipped, and Linux developers...
Agent OS launched August 20, bundling the Binance API, Binance x402, the Wallet Agentic Hub and a Skill Hub behind an MCP server callable from Claude Code, Codex, VS Code and ChatGPT without local API key management. After authorization an agent can pull market data and execut...
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 simultaneously across ChatGPT, API, and Codex — the first unified triple release. Built-in computer-use capabilities (build-run-verify-fix loop), 1.05M token context, and 33% fewer false claims vs GPT-5.2. A new experimental "Playwright Interactive" ski...
TechCrunch reported August 8 that OpenAI acquired NextSlide, which turned prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished editable presentations. Terms undisclosed. Founder Ahmed Beshry, who previously co-founded Caper AI (acquired by Instacart in 2021), said the team is...
b-nnett/codex-subscription-router, created August 16 and already past 200 stars, builds a locally patched copy of the official ChatGPT desktop app and fans its single app-server connection out to one official Codex child process per account through a Go multiplexer, each with...
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