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An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic made the move to meet the requirements of the EU's AI Act; however, not everyone was happy to learn about the addition. OpenAI also included scores from AI benchmarks showing similar performance from watermarked and unwatermarked text. B...

Chatham Financial deploys OpenAI's Codex and GPT-5.6 to automate trade validation, reducing processing time from 30 min to <4 min.

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

OpenAI solicits user stories for Codex Originals program; community recruitment effort with no technical announcement.

Proaction uses OpenAI's Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to boost fleet management sales 60% and reduce labor by 75+ hours.

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics tools for enterprises to track AI usage, spending, and ROI across teams.

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.

César de la Fuente's lab applies Codex and ChatGPT to genome mining for antimicrobial peptide discovery against drug-resistant pathogens.

MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

1Password reports 21% engineering productivity gain using OpenAI Codex for feature development and internal tooling.

Simon Willison demonstrates using Blender's Python API with ChatGPT Codex on macOS to generate images via coding agents.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." In addition to preventing users from having conversations with ChatGPT, the outage is also affecting logins, file uploads, voice mode, search, deep research, image generation, and more. OpenAI says it has "applied a mitigation" and is "monitoring recovery," though its AI tools are still experiencing "degraded performance." The...

Simon Willison documents OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app bundling LibreOffice, Python, Node.js, and document processing tools in local cache.

Gilbert + Tobin law firm implements governance framework for ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex deployment with CEO oversight and human accountability measures.

Polimill deploys OpenAI GPT models and Codex to enable Japanese municipalities to search administrative knowledge and accelerate development.

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to democratize software development across teams, reducing build time for non-engineers.

OpenAI launches Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex enabling workspace analytics, member management, permissions control, and usage limits.

Stampli compressed product launch timeline using ChatGPT Work and Codex for development acceleration.

Asana completed 5-year engineering backlog in 2 weeks using OpenAI Codex, reducing cost to $12K from projected multi-year effort.

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature is opt-in, rather than opt-out, and you can exclude certain apps and websites from Computer History, and you can delete entries if you want finer-grained control. Ari Weinstein, Product and Engineering manager at OpenAI, said on X that Computer History will automatically i...

Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like. This morning (literally a shower project) I tasked Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra with building a prototype: Do a research spike to see what it would take to build a library with the same core API as SQLite-utils - in particular the insert and upsert and insert_all and upsert_all and create and update methods, and the table introspection stuff - but backed by SQLalchemy so it works for multiple database engines Test against PostgreSQL and SQLite and ...

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 , where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago . I decided to pose the exact same prompt to Codex Desktop running GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra - the mode where Sol makes aggressive use of sub-agents - to see how it would do. It produced a much better game! Here's Moonlight & Mayhem - GitHub repository here , including the textures and prompts it generated using gpt-image-2 . Your browser d...

OpenAI launches education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex targeting K-12 and higher education institutions.

Circles deploys OpenAI API and Codex for telecom personalization, achieving 22% ARPU lift and 9% churn reduction.

OpenAI's Akshay Nathan details ChatGPT Work product strategy: Sites, memory, subagents, finance, no-code tools scaling from 0 to 10M users.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia infrastructure investment in Effingham County, Georgia with commitments to energy efficiency, job creation, and Codex access.