The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model 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.

ChatGPT remains the top downloaded app on the App Store, and it sounds like OpenAI will launch a new iPhone app soon. OpenAI has been investing heavily in its Codex desktop with updates arriving almost daily. Today’s release includes a new prompt that asks users one question: “What type of work do you do?”

OpenAI will merge its Codex coding assistant with ChatGPT into a single 'super-app' designed to handle both engineering and general-purpose tasks. The Codex desktop app, launched in February, has already reached over 4 million weekly active users.

Inside OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, employees both technical and non-technical are using Codex, the company’s agentic coding app, to handle an increasing amount of work. Codex is OpenAI’s label for its AI-coding platform,

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The package of updates comes as OpenAI’s rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, following the stellar successes of Claude Code and OpenAI aggressively shifting resources to catch up. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer,

OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is rapidly gaining traction inside and outside the company, with over 4 million weekly active users since its February launch. The tool enables both technical and non-technical staff to automate tasks, create dashboards, and ...

OpenAI is making several updates to its Codex AI coding agent. Codex is now able to operate desktop Mac apps with its own cursor, seeing what's on the screen, clicking, and typing to complete tasks. Codex can run multiple agents on the Mac in parallel,

Explore the features of the ChatGPT 5.5 Codex super app, from debugging code to automating browser tasks and integrating with your favorite tools.

OpenAI’s Advanced Account Security lets ChatGPT and Codex users replace passwords with passkeys or security keys, but recovery is limited.