OpenAI Launches Codex Security, 14 Days After Anthropic
OpenAI launches Codex Security in research preview, scanning 1.2M commits and finding 11,353 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. The AI vulnerability arms race is officially on.
Sophie Zhang
AI Infrastructure & Open Source Reporter
Sophie is a journalist and former systems engineer who covers AI infrastructure, open-source models, and the developer tooling ecosystem. She spent three years as a site reliability engineer at a cloud provider in Seattle before transitioning to tech journalism, which gives her writing an unusual level of technical depth - she understands distributed systems, GPU clusters, and inference optimization from the inside.
She studied Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia and later completed a science communication fellowship at MIT. Her engineering background means she can read a model card, spot a misleading benchmark, and explain why quantization matters - all in the same paragraph.
At Awesome Agents, Sophie covers AI infrastructure news: new model releases, open-source launches, developer tools, deployment trends, and the hardware that makes it all run. She has a soft spot for underdog open-source projects that punch above their weight and a sharp eye for when a "breakthrough" is really just better marketing.
Based in Seattle, WA.
Articles by Sophie Zhang
Meta Opens WhatsApp AI API Under EU Pressure - For a Price
Meta reversed its WhatsApp ban on rival AI chatbots in Europe and Brazil, but now charges rivals up to €0.13 per message - pricing critics call a disguised ban.
AWS Launches AI Agent Platform for Healthcare Admin
Amazon Connect Health deploys multi-agent AI built on Nova Sonic and Bedrock to automate scheduling, documentation, and patient verification for health systems.
Luma Launches Agents for End-to-End Creative Work
Luma AI's new Agents platform, powered by the Uni-1 Unified Intelligence model, lets creative teams go from a written brief to finished video, images, and audio in one workflow.
GPT-5.4 Lands with Computer Use and 1M Token Context
OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 with built-in computer use that beats human desktop performance, a 1 million token context window, and native Excel and Google Sheets integrations.
Claude Code Brings Back 'Ultrathink' After Users Revolt
Claude Code 2.1.68 restores the ultrathink keyword after community backlash over quality degradation, while setting Opus 4.6 to medium effort by default for speed on daily tasks.
Defense Contractors Purge Claude After Pentagon Blacklist
Lockheed Martin and at least 10 defense-backed startups are actively removing Anthropic's Claude from their operations after the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk.
PersonaPlex 7B Runs Full-Duplex Speech on a Mac
A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.
OpenAI Ships Codex Desktop App for Windows Devs
OpenAI's Codex desktop app hits the Microsoft Store with native Windows sandboxing, PowerShell agents, WinUI skills, and multi-agent parallel execution - no WSL required.
Evo 2 Is the Largest Open-Source Biology AI Ever Built
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.
MacBook Neo: Apple's iPhone Chip Lands in a $599 Mac
Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.
OpenAI Targets NATO Networks After Pentagon Deal
Days after securing a Pentagon classified network deal, OpenAI is exploring a contract to deploy AI on NATO's unclassified systems - a 32-nation alliance spanning North America and Europe.
