At DevDay 2026 in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled major updates including reusable cloud development environments for Codex, automatic security scanning for GitHub repositories, a new Decisions API for fast single decisions, Computer Use support in the Agents API, and an Ultrafast premium tier promising up to eight times faster performance.
OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has surged approximately 70% since the start of Q3 to nearly $70 billion, driven by enterprise sales growth and its Codex coding assistant. The company reports ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people weekly, while competitor Anthropic's revenue rate has reportedly reached similar levels.
Cisco's Talos Threat Intelligence group has identified malware that employs a "hive mind" approach, using multiple AI models including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini to vote on its next actions without human intervention. The team released an open-source toolkit called CAIRN to detect this emerging category of AI-integrated malware.
San Francisco-based Lightsage has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to build what it calls an 'Agent-Led Growth' platform, helping software companies optimize their products to be discovered and chosen by AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor rather than human users.
Ten AI coding agents competed in Austin Griffith's security challenge at Devcon, attempting 12 Solidity challenges originally designed for human developers. Only OpenAI's Codex completed all challenges, while DeepSeek, an open-weight Chinese model, came closest among cheaper alternatives.
Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI's head of product known for managing token limits on the Codex software engineering tool, gave an interview discussing the product's growth milestones and the company's plans to expand its reach.
OpenAI released a preview of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on August 11, 2026, bringing ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and the Codex coding agent to Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora users. The release comes approximately one month after Anthropic's Linux launch.
OpenAI has released its first hardware product, the Codex Micro, a compact keyboard developed with Work Louder designed to enhance workflow for users of its Codex AI coding agent. The $230 device features programmable keys for faster project switching and voice dictation capabilities.
OpenAI released the Codex Micro, a $230 programmable mechanical keypad developed with Work Louder, designed for developers to monitor and control AI coding agents with RGB status lighting. The limited-edition device marks OpenAI's first physical hardware product as its Codex and ChatGPT Work platforms have reached 8 million active users.
Databricks released Omnigent, an open-source 'meta-harness' under Apache 2.0 license that composes, governs, and shares AI agents across multiple platforms including Claude Code, Codex, and Pi. The project was built in collaboration with Neon.
OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a company specializing in secure cloud execution and orchestration technology, to integrate its capabilities into OpenAI's Codex ecosystem, which serves more than 5 million users.
OpenAI released a Chrome extension for Codex that enables the AI coding agent to complete browser-based tasks directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows, including accessing signed-in sessions for LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and internal tools.
OpenAI significantly upgraded its Codex developer tool to control Mac applications autonomously, generate images, remember preferences, and work on tasks independently for extended periods, positioning it as a direct competitor to Anthropic's Claude Code.
OpenAI has significantly upgraded its Codex developer tool to autonomously control Mac and Windows computers, generate images, and run tasks independently for extended periods. The expansion, announced April 16, 2026, positions Codex as a direct competitor to Anthropic's Claude Code and marks OpenAI's shift toward agentic AI systems.
OpenAI introduced a new $100/month Pro subscription tier offering significantly more usage of its Codex coding tool, positioned between the $20 Plus tier and the previous $200 Pro tier. The new tier provides 5x more Codex access than the Plus subscription.
