Industry & Policy
OpenAI Partner Network Turns AI Deployment Into a Consultant Race
OpenAI announced a Partner Network, $150M in ecosystem investment, and a goal to train 300,000 certified consultants for enterprise AI deployment.
Industry & Policy
OpenAI acquires Ona to give Codex a persistent cloud computer
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona and bring its customer-controlled cloud development environments into Codex, shifting coding-agent competition toward runtime, credentials, logs, and long-running work.
Industry & Policy
Oracle cloud commitments become a new buying path for OpenAI Codex
OpenAI and Oracle are opening an OCI Marketplace route for OpenAI models and Codex, moving AI adoption pressure from model access to procurement and governance.
AI Coding
Xcode 27 Brings MCP and Agent Choice Into Apple Development
Apple expanded Xcode 27 and Foundation Models with MCP, ACP, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI agents, and new model choices for Apple app teams.
Security & Safety
ChatGPT Lockdown Mode turns off agent web access for prompt injection defense
OpenAI expanded Lockdown Mode to all logged-in ChatGPT users, limiting web, agent, and file-download paths that can turn prompt injection into data exfiltration.
AI Coding
Kurrent Capacitor turns coding agent sessions into team memory
Kurrent Capacitor records Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor sessions as shared memory for PR review, recall, and agent evaluation.
Security & Safety
Salt Code brings MCP policy enforcement into AI coding tools
Salt Code uses MCP to push security policy into Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, and other AI coding assistants before vulnerable code reaches review.
AI Coding
Codex reaches 5M weekly users as OpenAI pushes Sites beyond coding
OpenAI introduced Codex Sites, annotations, and six role-based plugin bundles as non-developers become 20% of Codex users.
AI Coding
Cisco Cloud Control Embeds Codex to Build Network Operations Apps
Cisco Cloud Control puts OpenAI Codex inside App Builder, turning natural-language prompts into hosted network operations apps for its AgenticOps platform.
Security & Safety
ChatGPT Dreaming V3 Turns Memory Into a Privacy Burden
OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Dreaming V3. Automatic memory synthesis improves personalization, but makes deletion, source tracing, and review UX harder.
AI Agents
RelationalAI makes Snowflake agents solve optimization problems
RelationalAI expanded Rel inside Snowflake with a GA prescriptive reasoner, OSI porting, and coding skills for CoCo, Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot.
AI Coding
GPT-Rosalind hits 63.2% as Codex adds life-science plugins
OpenAI updated GPT-Rosalind with LifeSciBench, MedChemBench, GeneBench, LabWorkBench scores and Codex life-science plugins.