OpenAI Acquires Ona to Give Codex a Persistent Cloud Brain for Multi-Day AI Tasks
OpenAI is acquiring Ona, the secure cloud execution startup, to let Codex run long-horizon agent tasks inside customer-controlled environments.
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OpenAI is acquiring Ona, the secure cloud execution startup, to let Codex run long-horizon agent tasks inside customer-controlled environments.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers can apply existing Universal Credits toward OpenAI frontier models and Codex, removing the need for a separate OpenAI contract.
The latest Codex CLI release adds Desktop handoff via /app, local image path exposure, Alt-key fallback shortcuts, and MCP/Ollama performance improvements.
OpenAI is unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single desktop superapp with Canva and Booking.com integrations built in.
OpenAI is redesigning ChatGPT into a unified superapp merging Codex, image generation, and partner services, with the explicit goal of converting free users to paid plans.
ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can now purchase additional Codex usage credits beyond their plan limits, with an auto top-up option to keep work flowing.
Plugin sharing is now on by default for eligible ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces in Codex, letting teams discover and install shared plugins from a workspace directory.
OpenAI has added activity insights and shareable profile cards to Codex, letting consumer ChatGPT users review and share their usage highlights.
Codex expanded its onboarding with non-developer role choices so first-run suggestions match your actual job, as analysts and marketers hit 20% of users.
ChatGPT Sites lets Business and Enterprise teams ask Codex to build, deploy, and host full-stack internal web apps — no deployment pipeline needed.
OpenAI expands Codex beyond developers with six role-specific plugins, interactive Sites, and in-place Annotations for business teams.
OpenAI ships Goal Mode GA across Codex app, IDE, and CLI, plus Appshots for macOS to capture any window as instant thread context.
OpenAI's GA Secure MCP Tunnel uses an outbound-only tunnel-client daemon so private MCP servers can serve ChatGPT, Codex, and the Responses API with no inbound firewall rules.
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex coding agent hit GA on Amazon Bedrock, with IAM access, VPC isolation, CloudTrail logging, and pay-per-token billing.
OpenAI's engineering blog details how Codex powers self-improving tax agents that processed 7,000 returns with up to 97% accuracy — a reusable blueprint for enterprise AI.
ChatGPT Enterprise's Codex app now supports Computer Use on Windows with iOS/Android remote handoff, and a new GitHub Enterprise Server template for on-prem code review.
OpenAI and Dell have partnered to deploy the Codex AI coding agent inside hybrid and on-prem enterprise infrastructure, a first for OpenAI.
OpenAI brings Codex to iOS and Android, letting developers monitor, approve, and steer long-running coding sessions remotely across all plans.
OpenAI's Codex Security is now in research preview for Enterprise, Business, and Pro users — an AI agent that scans code, confirms real vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes.
OpenAI's new Codex desktop app lets developers run and manage multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with built-in skills, automations, and Git support.