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Codex computer use and remote control is now available on Windows

Announced in April, Codex with computer use can now see, click and type on your Windows box.

The same goes for remote control with ChatGPT on iOS or Android, and you can also use a Mac to control Codex on Windows.

Codex computer use opens PDFs, spreadsheets, slides and docs and can even handle SSH connections. It can control «any app on your computer,» and can work in the background so it won’t bother your workflow.

The remote control feature can answer questions, review code, handle approvals or let you change directions on Codex right from ChatGPT on your phone.

You can download the app here, and it is available for Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise plans.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, How to get started.

Codex goes mobile with ChatGPT

Without touching your Codex box, you can now control it from your phone. (Picture: OpenAI)
Instead of lugging your half-open laptop around to stay on top of Codex work, you can now simply leave it in the office and check in from anywhere.

Having Codex on your phone means you can «answer questions, review code, change direction, approve what comes next, or add a new idea,» OpenAI says.

This way, Codex never gets stuck on reviews or permissions, as you will be able to easily guide it from where you are.

You can also chat with it and add specific instructions, like dropping output in a Slack channel or send it on for review by others.

All your credentials, permissions and general setup stays on the machine Codex is running on, while just the updates and requests get routed to your phone.

Codex on ChatGPT for mobile is out today on iOS and Android, available to everyone, but only works with connected macOS machines. A Windows version is «coming soon.»

Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, Engadget, TechCrunch.

Codex gets a plugin for Chrome

The new Chrome extension lets Codex do everything you do on Google’s Chrome browser — from repetitive browser work to complex data entry work.

The plugin can run code in the background, automatically chooses the right tool for the job, and can be used for things like testing web apps, getting context from multiple tabs and launching DevTools.

It’s available on macOS and Windows in all regions «except the EU and UK.»

OpenAI debuts «pets» for Codex — and they are actually useful

Little Finder guy from Petdex.
Codex is pretty capable in itself, but sometimes you wish you could get status messages while it is working in the background, and maybe get it with a cute little mascot.

This «problem» has now been solved by OpenAI, by letting you use customizable «pets,» or mascots that float on top of your desktop and gives you useful status updates from Codex at work.

They can show you active threads, tell you whether Codex is running, waiting for input, or if anything needs your attention — at a glance, from different apps.

They can also be quite cute and the possibilities are basically endless.

It is even possible to make the little Finder guy, or download it from Petdex. There are also avatars for Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Goku, and a goblin and Clippy on Codex-pets.org.

Read more: Codex developers page, intrdouction on X.com, Engadget, Mashable, 9to5Mac.

OpenAI introduces «Chronicle,» a tool constantly screenshotting your desktop

The new feature is tailored to high-output work environments, or it would be a privacy disaster. (Picture: Adobe)
The new feature is an agent observing your screen all the time you work, storing screenshots as «memories» to better help with context for your Codex tasks.

— Over time, it helps Codex learn how you work: the tools you use, the projects you return to, and the workflows you rely on, OpenAI croons on x.com.

The point is to learn even more detail about you, from how you prefer your code to the tools and apps you use to perform. This can then later be recalled by Codex.

Notwithstanding the privacy concerns from Windows Recall, which also uses AI to take and store screenshots of your desktop, OpenAI is warning that the screenshots are even stored unencrypted on your computer.

They also warn that it eats up rate limits quickly, is very prone to prompt injection attacks and is only available on the $200 Pro subscription, as a research preview on macOS. Once enabled, it can be paused at any time in a menu item.

Read more: Announcement post, OpenAI support page, Aakash Gupta on x.com, 9to5Mac.

OpenAI releases revamped Codex app with computer use for macOS

Codex is getting one step closer to a super app. (Picture: OpenAI)
Getting one step closer to their super app, OpenAI’s latest Codex app can operate every app on your computer by «seeing, clicking and typing» with its own cursor — in the background (so you don’t have to wait for it to finish).

The app can also now generate images, remember preferences, and learn from previous workflows. It even comes with its own in-app browser — so you can check your web work instantly.

It can also open PDFs, spreadsheets, slides and docs natively, and gets a new summary pane to track agents, sources and «artifacts,» in addition to alpha support for SSH connections and multiple terminal tabs.

As a «preview,» it should be able to reuse older threads for context and instructions, and schedule its own work over days and weeks.

The app is available here. Computer use only works on the Mac version.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, The Verge, TechCrunch.

OpenAI announces $100 ChatGPT Pro plan, with 5x limits by popular demand

Codex growth is off the charts for OpenAI, which is now releasing a custom-made subscription. (Picture: OpenAI)
ChatGPT is on par with Claude subscriptions, now that it has an intermediate Pro subscription tailor-made for Codex use.

This also closes the huge gap between the Plus tier at $20/month and the top Pro tier at $200/month.

Sam Altman says the new tier is by very popular demand. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch that 3 million people are using Codex every week, and it’s growing by more than 70% per month.

To celebrate the launch of the new tier, OpenAI is increasing usage limits for the $100 plan to 10x for Codex, while the $200 plan remains at 20x.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement thread, OpenAI’s pricing page, TechCrunch and CNBC.

OpenAI developer releases Codex plugin for Claude Code

Codex for Claude Code might be a tad cheeky, but it’s useful. (Picture: screenshot)
Thanks to OpenAI’s Dominik Kundel, you can now call up OpenAI’s coding agent Codex within the Claude Code environment.

The plugin is fairly easy to install and use, so long as you have a ChatGPT account to log in with.

It’s handy for people who switch between the two models, and Codex on Claude can do things like review code, do an adversarial review, or hand off the entire task — where you should be able to switch apps and finish the work in Codex.

— This plugin is a simple way to keep your Claude Code workflow and still use Codex where Codex is strong, writes OpenAI developer Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav in the instructions.

Whether Anthropic will like Codex integration in its flagship coding product is anyones guess.

Read more: Announcement tweet, OpenAI dev community, and instructions for use.

OpenAI plans to combine Codex, ChatGPT and Atlas in «super app»

Feeling that OpenAI has lost focus, attention turns to putting all eggs in one basket. (Picture: generated)
According to The Wall Street Journal, the new app will include agentic capabilities, and signals another step in the company’s recent quest to refocus on coding and business users.

The app will make it easier for teams within OpenAI to work together, the WSJ reports, and will help other users with productivity-related tasks, as they double down on enterprise users.

The standalone ChatGPT app will not be affected by the move, although the paper notes that OpenAI feels it has lost attention by focusing on «side quests» like the Sora app — now rumored to get included in ChatGPT proper.

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo will be leading the super app effort, and she tweets that:

— When new bets start to work, like we’re seeing now with Codex, it’s very important to double down on them and avoid distractions.

Read more: The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

Codex grows to 2 million weekly users, acquires Python developers Astral

With the popular developers joining, Codex moves in closer on the software stack. (Picture: Shutterstock)
While announcing that Codex had a 3x increase in users and 5x more actual usage this year, and are up to 2 million weekly active users, OpenAI says they are buying Python developer tool company Astral.

Some of the most beloved and, importantly, used Python developer tools come from the company, which will now be supported by OpenAI.

The deal for roughly 32 employees will strengthen Codex by integrating the tools that have «hundreds of millions of downloads per month,» according to Astral themselves.

OpenAI will continue to maintain the open source projects, and by gaining access to them — and the engineers’ knowhow — for Codex’s AI agents, they will be able to work more closely with the tools.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Astral’s announcement, and CNBC.

OpenAI ships Codex app for Windows — running in the Linux subsystem

The official Codex app has finally arrived for Windows, almost a month to the day after first debuting on macOS.

It runs natively in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and has integrated terminals for PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Git Bash.

It also has all the «regular» features the Mac version has — and is a fully integrated multi-agent coding environment.

The Windows app is also properly sandboxed, so you can block it from accessing files outside your working folder and «prevent outbound links» unless you approve it, writes OpenAI’s Andrew Ambrosino on x.com.

In addition, your session history is stored on your OpenAI account, making it possible to start coding on a Mac and finish it on Windows without losing work, Engadget notes.

The app is available today from the Microsoft Store.

Read more: Andrew Ambrosino’s announcement, Engadget and Microsoft Store.

OpenAI introduces Codex-Spark, greatly improving coding speed

Codex-Spark is small, fast, and almost as good as the real thing. (Pictures: OpenAI)
Thanks to their recent collaboration with Cerebras, the new model delivers «more than 1000 tokens per second while remaining highly capable for real-world coding tasks.»

The drawback is that it’s text-only and only has a 128K context window, and it’s supposed to be used «where latency matters as much as intelligence.»

Continue reading “OpenAI introduces Codex-Spark, greatly improving coding speed”

Nvidia standardizing on GPT-5.3-Codex internally for ~30k engineers

OpenAI just scored a big win for its coding platform. (Picture: generated)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been touting the latest Codex coding model all week, praising the team and extolling how excited everyone is. Adoption is also growing, and now Nvidia is voting with their feet:

Codex is now rolling out to all engineers at the company, in close cooperation with the OpenAI team who built in «cloud-managed admin controls» and fail-safe processing.

They even helped onboard the Nvidia team, saying «It’s shocking how quickly they’ve adopted Codex», and that they move like a giant startup.

GPT-5.3-Codex was only launched last week, and is perceived as a possible profit engine, competing with Claude Code for enterprise customers.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, faster and more capable

The new coding model is 25% faster — letting it do long-running tasks in a shorter time frame.

It’s the first OpenAI model that was built with itself. They used early versions of it to debug, manage deployment and diagnose test results, and say they were impressed with its capabilities.

Continue reading “OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, faster and more capable”

OpenAI’s Codex suite gets a macOS app

For your discerning coding needs, you are no longer tied to the Codex web interface or terminal window, and can now vibe code on your own macOS app. Windows support is «comining soon.”

The app supports multitasking agents, creating and using skills, and automations.

Read more about it and get the app here.

To celebrate the launch, Codex is now available for Free and Go tiers, and paid plans get double the usage limits for «a limited time.»