OpenAI's technical glitch removed previously approved security researchers from its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, and some cannot regain access because the verification system now deems them…
OpenAI's Codex Desktop app with an API key removes the Fast mode toggle and strips the `service_tier=fast` parameter, resulting in median throughput of 54.7 TPS versus 87.3 TPS when Fast mode is force…
OpenAI released Codex Desktop, a native Linux application for ChatGPT and Codex, under the MIT license. Built in Rust with GTK4, the open-source client offers a lightweight, integrated AI workbench wi…
Simon Willison used OpenAI's Codex Desktop running GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to generate a raccoon-themed heist game called Moonlight & Mayhem, which he published on GitHub. The AI-produced game improved on a…
A developer fixed a bug in Codex Desktop where the 'Last updated' sort order was overridden by stale manual ordering state, then turned the verified fix into a reusable Skill for AI agents. The recove…
A developer created a runtime tool that enables the hidden 'Control other devices' feature in Codex Desktop for Windows without modifying the installed binary. The tool overrides a Statsig gate and sp…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new video command that records browser sessions as WebM videos from YAML storyboards, a feature that had been blocked for two years until Playwright 1.…
A developer discovered a workaround for a bug in Codex Desktop where requests fail with the error 'This model is not supported when using X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite.' The issue occurs afte…
Simon Willison created a GitHub repository that uses AI-generated scripts and GitHub Actions to build a 66MB SQLite database from Mozilla's browser compatibility data, hosted with open CORS headers fo…
An OpenAI partner engineer documented a manual process for migrating OpenAI Codex Desktop state between Macs, preserving active threads, local state, installed skills, plugins, and working context. Th…
Simon Willison released Datasette 1.0a33, a significant alpha toward a stable 1.0 that extends the `?_extra=` pattern to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. The new JSON extras feature is no…
Alpha Insights is an open-source business analysis tool designed for AI runtimes like Claude Code and Codex Desktop. Unlike standard AI research tools that rely solely on prompts, it enforces an analy…