AI Briefing#codex
The latest AI and developer news about #codex, with the original source and a short summary.
The latest AI and developer news about #codex, with the original source and a short summary.
Project Discovery researchers poisoned Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct to exfiltrate credentials via OpenAI's Codex CLI, proving that backdoors can be hidden in under 0.6% of model parameters and evade standard benchmarks.
The MIT-licensed tool enables unified control of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and Google Antigravity via iOS, Android, web, and desktop apps.
The new view groups requests by session to display cache hit rates, duration, and provider routing paths for coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
A portfolio manager built a BDC tracker in one day and analyzes 300-page credit agreements in 20 minutes using Codex.
The plugin reduced connector build time from 3–6 weeks to 4 days using Codex.
The update adds new voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, and Japanese, rolling out to all users today.
Codex reached 5 million weekly active users in June 2026 before integrating into the ChatGPT desktop app in July.
The tool integrates firm precedents and ChatGPT Enterprise to produce analysis and proposed tracked changes for lawyer review.
The startup reduced backtest time by 97% and consumed 1 trillion OpenAI tokens in a single day to power autonomous quantitative research.
The increase from 272k to 500k tokens is available at no extra charge across Codex and ChatGPT Work.
Codex and ChatGPT Work now account for more than half of output tokens among EU ChatGPT Enterprise customers.
CEO Alex Mashrabov states that GPT-6 Astra enables the creation of consistent videos exceeding 10 minutes, up from a previous limit of about one minute.
Farol is a free, MIT-licensed macOS terminal built on libghostty that tracks agent status via a sidebar and menu bar.
The MIT-licensed bigarrow tool enables AI agents to draw click-through arrows, boxes, and text on macOS screens without stealing focus or requiring screen recording permissions.
The optimized workflow averages $0.47 per run and completes tasks in about four minutes, compared to at least $36.21 and 22.5 minutes on the original Model B setup.
A team achieved 83% byte-exact function reconstruction in a first-person shooter decompilation project by using an automated verification harness that enabled cheaper models to produce high-quality results.
The new mode offers near-Astra intelligence at up to 8x faster speeds than Sol Standard, priced at $12 per million input tokens.
Oracle reports reducing talent acquisition research time from 2–4 days to 15–20 minutes using ChatGPT Work, alongside 130K active ChatGPT users and 95K+ Codex users.
OpenAI will add invisible watermarks to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union only, declining to make it a global default at launch.
The AGPL-3.0 licensed tool tracks token usage and generates daily, weekly, and monthly work summaries by analyzing local session records from Claude Code and Codex.
LegalOn Technologies reduced estimated daily AI costs by 65% by matching GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 models to specific task complexities.
Berthd offers an open-source macOS client that runs Claude Code and Codex on remote dev boxes, allowing agents to continue working even when the local laptop is closed.
The expanded agreement brings GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 series models to Atlassian's Rovo platform and powers agents across its ecosystem.
OpenRig allows developers to define and boot multi-agent coding teams using YAML specs, managing sessions via tmux and a local daemon.