According to Beating, OpenAI has added a new "Codex Pets" feature to the Codex desktop application, allowing users to spawn and interact with an animated virtual companion. Users can activate a pet by typing /pet in the editor. The feature functions as an agent status indicator, displaying a

Gate News message, April 29 — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a redesigned Codex interface on X today, introducing two distinct modes for users. "Excelmogging" targets everyday office tasks with a simplified interface and the tagline "Same tools, simpler interface," featuring example tasks like

Gate News message, April 26 — OpenAI's head of developer experience Romain Huet revealed in a recent statement on X that Codex, the company's independently maintained specialized coding model line, has been merged into the main model starting with GPT-5.4 and will no longer receive separate

Gate News message, April 25 — Nvidia has rolled out OpenAI's Codex, an AI agent powered by GPT-5.5, to its entire workforce following a successful trial with approximately 10,000 employees, according to internal communications from CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Codex is designed to as

Gate News message, April 23 — OpenClaw, an open-source AI Agent platform, released version 2026.4.22 on April 22, with its biggest change being the alignment of Codex harness and Pi harness lifecycles. Previously, plugins behaved inconsistently across the two harness pathways, with some hooks

Gate News message, April 23 — Daniel Edrisian, a former engineer from OpenAI's Codex team, has announced the launch of Blackstar Computers, an AI hardware company that has completed a $12 million seed funding round. Abstract led the round, with participation from SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter

OpenClaw switches from Pi to Codex harness to fix a silent authentication fallback, with two PRs addressing the bridge and fallback; post-fix, the agent shifts from shallow heartbeat polling to a full work loop, enabling progress. Abstract: OpenClaw’s Codex harness optimization addressed a critical authentication flaw that caused silent fallback to the Pi harness when using Codex with OpenAI models. Two pull requests fix the authentication bridge and prevent silent fallback, changing the runtime adapter. As a result, agent behavior evolves from shallow heartbeat polling to a full work loop that reads context, analyzes tasks, edits repositories, and verifies progress, improving continuity and visibility across heartbeats.

OpenAI expands enterprise push, teaming with Accenture and TCS to embed Codex in client development via Codex Labs, while shifting resources from Sora to broader ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas initiatives. OpenAI expands its enterprise strategy by partnering with Accenture and TCS to embed Codex into client development teams through Codex Labs. It is shifting resources from experimental projects like Sora toward core products such as ChatGPT and Codex, pursuing deeper integration with a desktop app and the Atlas browser, and broadening Codex into broader productivity applications to boost adoption and competitiveness.

OpenAI Codex hit 4 million MAUs, announced by Sottiaux and Altman; the jump came in under two weeks from 3 million, and rate limits were reset across all tiers to celebrate. OpenAI Codex reached 4 million monthly active users in under two weeks since reaching 3 million, according to statements by OpenAI executives. To mark the milestone, rate limits across all tiers were reset.

Gate News message, April 21 — OpenAI has launched Codex Labs, a new experimental platform.