
OpenAI Gives Codex Desktop Control and 111 Plugins
OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, an Atlas-based in-app browser, gpt-image-1.5 image generation, and 111 new plugins - moving the app far beyond agentic coding.
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OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, an Atlas-based in-app browser, gpt-image-1.5 image generation, and 111 new plugins - moving the app far beyond agentic coding.

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OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind on April 16, a frontier reasoning model for drug discovery that outranked human experts on RNA prediction and competes directly with Google DeepMind's AlphaFold.

OpenAI's April 2026 Agents SDK update adds sandboxed execution environments and three-layer guardrails for enterprises building long-horizon agentic systems.

Three papers from today's arXiv: a joint fix for KV cache bloat and attention cost, new evidence that fine-tuning belongs in the middle of a transformer, and why stronger reasoning hurts behavioral simulation.

OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber is a fine-tuned defensive cybersecurity model with binary reverse engineering, lowered refusal thresholds, and restricted access through the Trusted Access for Cyber program.

OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber is a restricted model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with binary reverse engineering and reduced refusal rates, available only through identity-verified access tiers - a direct response to Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

The Information reports Anthropic is prepping Claude Opus 4.7 and an AI design tool for imminent release, while OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber yesterday - a restricted cybersecurity model that directly challenges Claude Mythos.

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