{"slug": "openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex", "title": "OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex", "summary": "OpenAI is releasing a hardware device for its AI coding tool Codex on July 15th, as teased in a video showing a square-shaped device with buttons. The device is a macro pad created in partnership with Work Louder, similar to the Creator Micro 2, allowing users to assign shortcuts for Codex.", "body_md": "OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In [a video posted to X](https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2071639953927438440) on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.”\n\n# OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex\n\nA new video shows a Codex-focused device built in collaboration with Work Louder.\n\nA new video shows a Codex-focused device built in collaboration with Work Louder.\n\nThis isn’t the mysterious [AI-powered device OpenAI](/news/827607/openai-hardware-prototype-chatgpt-jony-ive-sam-altman) is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the teaser, OpenAI is launching the device in partnership with Work Louder, a company that sells an array of mechanical keyboards and macro pads with mappable keys, dials, and switches.\n\nThe silhouette of the device shown by OpenAI looks a bit [like Work Louder’s Creator Micro 2](https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2), a macro pad that comes with 13 mechanical switches, a joystick, and a touch sensor. Users can assign shortcuts and custom actions to the toggles on that device when using different apps, like Photoshop. Figma [similarly partnered with Work Louder](/2023/12/12/23996534/figma-creator-micro-macro-pad-price-release-dates-specs-features) to launch a macro pad with preconfigured shortcuts.\n\nNeither OpenAI nor Work Louder shares any more details about their upcoming collaboration, but with a launch just two weeks away, we won’t have to wait much longer to find out more.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959174/openai-codex-hardware-work-louder", "published_at": "2026-06-29 18:52:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 18:56:45.998680+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex", "Work Louder", "Creator Micro 2", "Jony Ive", "Figma"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-is-teasing-new-hardware-for-codex.jsonld"}}