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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.

OpenAI’s Q1 2026 ended with $5.7 billion in revenue, and a -122% margin

OpenAI is still leading the pack, but is facing increasing headwinds. (Picture: Adobe)
The Information (paywalled) says sources are telling them that OpenAI landed a billion dollars ahead of Anthropic last quarter, but «only» has an annualized run rate of $30 billion versus Anthropic’s $45B.

The AI lab estimates that its adjusted income margin was at -122%, meaning it lost $1.22 for every dollar earned, driven by high investment costs for infrastructure and compute.

The growth was driven mainly by Codex and enterprise customers, the report said — although ChatGPT growth stalled at about 905 million weekly users in the latest quarter.

OpenAI is said to reveal its IPO plans «within weeks,» Reuters reports, and possibly as soon as «this Friday,» according to CNBC.

Its most recent funding round valued the company at $852 billion, just short of Anthropic’s $900 billion — but their funding round came a little later.

Read more: The Information (paywalled), Ed Zitron on X.

Musk’s OpenAI trial gets tossed by jury

OpenAI is off the hook for their for-profit organization. (Picture: Adobe)
The jury spent less than two hours Monday to deliberate on the case, and dismissed Musk’s claims for being filed after the statutory limitation of three years.

The trial had been brought in 2024 over a 2019 decision by OpenAI to create a for-profit arm, which was later expanded into a public benefit corporation — allowing OpenAI to raise massive funds and possibly go public at a later stage.

Elon Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI in 2015, but left the board in 2018. He argued in court that it was set up as a charity, and his lawyers claimed that OpenAI’s executives had enriched themselves at the cost of the charity’s mission.

As the court decided on a technical issue, the jury never touched the actual merits of the case, Musk argues, and vows to appeal.

Read more: NBC News, CNBC, Reuters, and The Verge.

Catch up on the weekend’s news

Chatbots are terrible radio show hosts. (Picture: Adobe)
There is not much happening over the weekend, but here’s what you need to catch up on the news:

OpenAI makes OpenClaw better with GPT, and its creator, Peter Steinberger, incurs a $1.3 million bill.

ChatGPT Financial is here for Pro users. GPT can now connect to your financial accounts and help you budget and plan. 200 million people per month ask GPT financial questions. [TechCrunch, Mashable]

OpenAI offers Malta a free year of ChatGPT, all citizens need to do is pass an AI literacy exam by the University of Malta and they get a full year of GPT Plus. [Reuters, Engadget]

What happens when AI chatbots run radio stations? Andon Labs tried to find out, and it didn’t go so well. Gemini started listing off mass casualty events, GPT got hung up on ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Claude went all in on workers’ rights. Grok played identical weather reports every three minutes. [Gizmodo, The Verge]

Week ahead: There’s Google I/O on Tuesday and Wednesday where I expect lots of AI news. The keynote stream is already registered and starts Tuesday at 10am Pacific/7pm European Central. Then there’s Nvidia Q1 earnings on Tuesday, and Code With Claude on the 19th in London.

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.

OpenAI’s security tools gets Codex Security and a new brand: «Daybreak»

Security for the (vetted) masses is the promise of Daybreak (Picture: OpenAI)
Billed as the answer to Anthropic’s Mythos model, the new branding is basically just a suite of the models released last week — such as ChatGPT-5.5-Cyber — and the new Codex Security.

— Daybreak combines the intelligence of OpenAI models, the extensibility of Codex as an agentic harness, and our partners across the security flywheel to help make the world safer for everyone, OpenAI writes.

The more advanced models require a screening of users, and the better they get, the more serious the vetting.

— Because those same capabilities can be misused, Daybreak pairs expanded defensive capability with trust, verification, proportional safeguards, and accountability.

Also new is that OpenAI now offers a vulnerability scan as a way into the ecosystem, available for businesses of all sizes and systems.

Read more: OpenAI’s presentation, The Verge.

OpenAI launches Deployment Company to reach more enterprises

Looking for some sweet enterprise magic, OpenAI forms «DeployCo.» (Picture: Shutterstock)
In an effort to increase enterprise adoption of their tools, the new company will be funded by $4 billion and will work by embedding Forward Deployed Engineers into companies looking to start using AI.

The issue at hand is not simply installing and using the OpenAI chatbots, but in identifying datasets, infrastructure and workflows to hook up and where AI can be most impactful, OpenAI writes.

The Deployment Company will be joined by 150 experienced engineers from Tomoro, which OpenAI just acquired. Tomoro does just what the new company is tasked with — turning AI into a strategic advantage.

On the investment side, the company counts Bain & Company, Capgemini, and McKinsey. Together with a whole host of founding partners, including SoftBank and Goldman Sachs, they will be covering more than 2,000 enterprises around the world as consultants and integrators.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Reuters, Axios.

OpenAI updates its voice models with GPT-5-level reasoning in API

The new models are only available to developers so far. (Picture: Adobe)
The new models out today in the API are GPT-Realtime-2 that can handle requests and do stuff for you, while being a natural conversation partner.

Realtime-Translate can handle live translations from 70+ input languages into 13 output languages and keep up with the speaker.

While Realtime-Whisper is a transcriber that turns speech into text as it happens.

Sam Altman notes that it’s mostly young people that prefer voice interactions with ChatGPT, while older people like to type.

Realtime-2 is priced at a whopping $32 for 1 million input tokens and $64 for 1M outputs. The other models are priced cheaply.

The models are only available in the API so far, so no general access within ChatGPT. They can, however, be added to apps in Codex.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, on X.com, 9to5Mac, and TechCrunch.

GPT-5.5 -Cyber is out in «limited preview,» available to vetted defenders


Two models models are launching today; GPT-5.5 with «Trusted Access for Cyber» that requires some vetting to get into. It can handle defensive security, do code review, malware analysis and patch validation.

GPT-.5.5-Cyber requires stronger verification and does specialized workflows, red teaming, penetration testing and controlled validation.

GPT-5.5 Cyber was earlier found on par with Anthropic’s Mythos model, that has been spooking the establishment lately.

The vetting approach for the Cyber model has been «informed by conversations with cybersecurity and national security leaders across federal and state government and major commercial entities,» OpenAI says.

Read more: OpenAI’s blog, CNBC, Axios.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, with more concise answers

No more five-page essays when you need a simple answer. (Picture: generated)
Replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as the «daily driver» for hundreds of millions of users, the new model touts major changes to common gripes.

For those fed up with three-page essay responses to simple questions, the new model should offer «clearer, more concise answers,» with «stronger» and «tighter» responses that are more «to-the-point.» This should reduce the need for frequent follow-up questions, OpenAI says.

OpenAI says the new Instant will be «more effective» at leveraging history from previous chats, files and Gmail. It should also be showing you its sources when it uses memories.

Hallucinations are supposedly also way down, reducing the rate by 52.5% in internal tests, while inaccurate responses dropped by 37.3%.

The model will become the default option for most ChatGPT users on the Plus and Pro tiers, and is rolling out «over the next two days.» Other plans should get it «soon.»

Read more: OpenAI’s introduction, X.com thread, The Verge, TechCrunch.

The White House reportedly discussing vetting AI models ahead of release

The White House says any Executive Order will come from the President himself. (Picture: Adobe)
The Trump administration has appartently been spooked by the cyber capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos model and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 — and is considering an Executive Order to vet new models ahead of release, Axios and the NYT reports.

These models have both been limited for their ability in cybersecurity, and point to a not-so-distant future where such capabilities might be widely available.

To that end, the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director held all of two meetings last week, with tech and cyber companies on the one hand and with trade groups in tech on the other, according to Axios.

The ONCD has also been discussing safety testing for federal AI deployments, by assessing the security exposure of AI models before rolling out to the public sector.

The NYT reported on this first, and is saying that there might be a safety review for new models, while giving the Pentagon the first shot at eventual «useful» cyber capabilities, but would not block their release.

Any discussion on «potential executive orders is speculation,» a White House official told Axios.

Read more: Axios and the New York Times.

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman reveals $30 billion stake

ChatGPT has been a lucrative endeavor for those at the top. (Picture: Shutterstock)
«The compensation was certainly secondary to the mission,» Brockman said in court yesterday, according to NBC News.

He was being questioned at the Musk trial by lawyer Steven Molo, asking «You just happen to be $30 billion richer?»

The OpenAI President also holds a stake in Sam Altman’s family fund and chip company Cerebras, which is a significant supplier to OpenAI, Reuters reports.

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI in a California court, arguing the startup he co-founded has abandoned its altruistic non-profit mission and going on an «enrichment spree» on a for-profit basis. He seeks to paint the executives as greedy.

OpenAI counters that Musk is driven by resentment of their success and an obsession to control the company. The trial is ongoing.

Read more: Trial notes by NBC News, Reuters, Business Insider, and Wired.

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.

GPT-5.5 found on par with Mythos, with OpenAI to limit access to Cyber version

It took about three weeks for a competing model to hit parity with Mythos. (Picture: Adobe)
After a major research paper by the UK’s AI Security Institute found GPT-5.5 a little better than Mythos, Sam Altman moved to limit access to the Cyber version of the model.

The paper probes «vulnerability research and exploitation against realistic targets and modern mitigations» through rigorous tests, and found GPT-5.5 had a pass rate of 71.4%, compared to Mythos’ 68.6% on the most advanced evaluations.

According to the AISI, their test suite proves that Mythos is not a one-off act of brilliance, but part of a wider trend for frontier models. They say «we should expect further increases in cyber capability from models in the near future, potentially in quick succession.»

At the same time, Sam Altman posted on x.com that OpenAI will indeed follow Anthropic’s lead on limiting access to GPT-5.5-Cyber to «critical cyber defenders:»

— We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for cyber; we want to rapidly help secure companies/infrastructure, Altman wrote.

Read more: The AI Security Institute, Altman’s x post, TechCrunch. Discussion on r/Singularity.

OpenAI confirms and explains GPT’s affinity for mentioning goblins

It’s true; ChatGPT is overly attached to goblins and gremlins. (Picture: Adobe)
Two days ago, OpenAI caught a mini-viral moment after a system prompt was found to contain a total ban on the mention of goblins, leading to more questions than answers.

Today, OpenAI is revealing their research on the issue, and can reveal that this was indeed real. Starting with GPT-5.1, the models did definitively prefer using «goblins» in their replies.

The culprit was the «nerdy» personality, which debuted with the launch of the 5.1-model and had increased «goblin»-mentions by 175% and «gremlin» by 52%. And by GPT-5.4, «goblin»-use had balloned by 3,881.4%, causing consternation at OpenAI.

The error seems to stem from rewarding a «playful style» with creature references, and this has since propagated through later releases.

The «nerdy» personality was retired in March after GPT-5.4 was released, but goblins snuck into the training data for GPT-5.5, too — forcing the system prompt to «Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query.»

Read more: OpenAI on goblins. On the system prompt: Gizmodo, Business Insider, and Ars Technica. Discussion on r/ChatGPT.