{"slug": "openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad", "title": "OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad", "summary": "OpenAI released Codex Micro, a $230 hardware keypad for its Codex development tool, despite previous promises to focus on core products and avoid distractions. The keypad comes months after OpenAI spent hundreds of millions on a YouTube show, drawing criticism for straying from its mission.", "body_md": "Remember [back in March](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/24/openai-superapp) when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo [announced to the company](https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-plans-launch-of-desktop-superapp-to-refocus-simplify-user-experience-9e19931d?st=25wiu1) that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they spent “low hundreds of millions” to [purchase the TBPN YouTube show](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/02/openai-tbpn)? In their continuing effort to focus on core product, they’re now selling [a $230 hardware keypad](https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2077425991790870644) ostensibly for working with Codex, which is no longer an app but just a tab in their craptacular super app.\n\nNo way, that’s crazy. I’ve just been using the keyboard and trackpad that came on my laptop for free like a stupid idiot.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad", "canonical_source": "https://openai.com/supply/co-lab/work-louder/", "published_at": "2026-07-16 17:45:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 18:02:32.153326+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex Micro", "Fidji Simo", "TBPN"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-releases-codex-micro-a-stupid-230-hardware-keypad.jsonld"}}