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News Jun 2, 2026

Simon Willison publishes a small file-paste editor prototype built with Codex desktop

Simon Willison published a tool called Pasted File Editor that recreates the large-paste behavior found in Claude’s apps. The prototype keeps the editor text unchanged while turning pasted files or text blocks of 1,000 characters or more into attached files below the editor. The tool supports file previews, full-file viewing, file removal, drag-and-drop, file selection, […]

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News Jun 2, 2026

OpenAI says Codex has passed 5 million weekly active users as it pushes into general knowledge work

OpenAI released a new report on June 2 titled The Next Era of Knowledge Work and positioned Codex as a broader productivity product, not only a coding tool. Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than sixfold since the desktop app launched in February. Developers remain the largest user group, […]

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News May 29, 2026

Cisco Uses OpenAI Codex to Build Enterprise AI Security Products

Cisco is using OpenAI Codex inside production engineering workflows, including work on AI Defense, its end-to-end AI security product for protecting against AI-related safety and security risks. OpenAI said Codex helped Cisco compress engineering work that would have taken several quarters into weeks. Cisco used Codex to write the majority of AI Defense and nearly […]

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News May 27, 2026

OpenAI says Codex is used by more than 4 million people each week

OpenAI says Codex is now used by more than 4 million people each week and is being deployed by companies including Cisco, Datadog, Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, Ramp, and Virgin Atlantic. OpenAI was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents. The company says Codex has been improved with GPT-5.5, stronger […]

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News May 21, 2026

OpenAI model disproves central conjecture in discrete geometry

OpenAI announced that an internal reasoning model has disproved a longstanding conjecture tied to the planar unit distance problem, a well-known question in combinatorial geometry first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The problem asks how many pairs of points can be exactly one unit apart when n points are placed in a plane. For […]

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News May 16, 2026

A new personal finance experience in ChatGPT

OpenAI has launched a preview of a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S., turning the chatbot into a more context-aware money assistant rather than just a place to ask generic budgeting questions. The feature lets users connect financial accounts, view a dashboard of spending, subscriptions, investments, liabilities, and upcoming […]

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News May 16, 2026

OpenAI and Malta announce a national program that offers ChatGPT Plus to citizens who complete an AI literacy course

OpenAI and the Government of Malta say they are launching what they describe as a first-of-its-kind national partnership to provide ChatGPT Plus to Maltese citizens. Under the program, participants complete an AI literacy course developed by the University of Malta and then receive one year of ChatGPT Plus at no cost. OpenAI says the first […]

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News May 13, 2026

OpenAI details the Windows sandbox it built for Codex

OpenAI published a technical write-up on the Windows sandbox it built for Codex. Windows users previously had to either approve nearly every command, including many reads, or run Codex with full local access. The design target was a Windows sandbox that lets Codex read broadly, write inside the workspace, and block unapproved internet access with […]

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News May 11, 2026

OpenAI publishes a cybersecurity action plan focused on defensive access and deployment controls

OpenAI published a five-part cybersecurity action plan centered on expanding access to defensive AI tools while tightening deployment controls around advanced cyber-capable systems. The plan is organized around five areas: democratizing cyber defense, coordinating across government and industry, strengthening safeguards around frontier cyber capabilities, preserving visibility and control in deployment, and helping users protect themselves. […]

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News May 5, 2026

OpenAI details how it rebuilt voice infrastructure for low-latency AI at scale

OpenAI published a technical breakdown of the infrastructure behind low-latency voice interactions in ChatGPT and the Realtime API. OpenAI says the system now has to support more than 900 million weekly active users while keeping connection setup fast and media round-trip time, jitter, and packet loss low enough for natural turn-taking. The company says it […]

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