OpenAI Codex Micro: A Six-Key Pad Built to Run Agent Fleets
OpenAI's first hardware is a six-key macro pad for Codex, built with Work Louder. Each key shows a live agent status, a dial sets reasoning effort, and a joystick fires common workflows.
Last updated: 2026-07-20
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ChatGPT Unified Search: One Bar Across Chats, Projects, Files and Images
ChatGPT's unified search now spans your whole account — every chat, project, file and image from one bar, with type filters, on web, iOS and Android. Paired with Projects it turns scattered history into a searchable knowledge base.
GPT-5.6 Soul vs Fable 5 vs Grok 4.5 vs GLM 5.2: How They Compare (analysis)
A plain-language rundown of four flagship models from mid-2026 — GPT-5.6 Soul, Fable 5, Grok 4.5, and open-weight GLM 5.2 — what each is tuned for, where to access it, and the trade-offs. Analysis, not a how-to.
Codex vs Fable 5: Which Agent Picks the Better Problem? (analysis, not a how-to)
Nate B Jones gave Codex (GPT-5.6) and Fable 5 the same open-ended task: inspect my work and pick your own problem to automate. Codex finished clean but stayed safe; Fable found the higher-leverage problem. Analysis, not a how-to.
Codex Full Course: Build and Automate Anything in the Super App
A one-hour walkthrough of the Codex desktop 'super app' — plan mode, access levels, effort dials, model selection, local-vs-cloud runs, git branches, and connecting skills like Gmail to build websites and scheduled automations.
Clean Your AI Harness: 6 Principles for Fable 5 & GPT-5.6 Setups
Nate B Jones on why bloated agent harnesses hurt Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 more than weak prompts — six principles for auditing and cleaning your instructions, skills, memory, and permissions.
Which AI Model Should You Pick? GPT-5.6 vs Fable 5 (analysis, not a how-to)
Nate B Jones on choosing between GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 by your working style, not benchmarks (analysis, not a how-to).
GPT-5.6 Soul Ran an Autonomous Ad Engine: Codex + Higsfield MCP
Nick Saraev points GPT-5.6 Soul (via Codex CLI) at the Higsfield MCP and Netlify and lets it run an unattended loop — inventing 80+ physical products, generating images with GPT Image 2, animating ad videos, and auto-publishing sites, all with a self-QA pass.
ChatGPT 5.6 + Codex Tested: Websites, Computer Use, Plugins & the Pet
A hands-on tour of the GPT-5.6 Codex update — now folded into the ChatGPT app. Julian Goldie builds websites, runs background computer-use to post on the web, edits video via a Descript plugin, installs an agent from GitHub, and tries the new 'pet' task tracker and effort levels.
GPT-5.6 Soul on Codex Ultra Autonomously Produced This Video
Nate Herk gave GPT-5.6 Soul one prompt on Codex 'Ultra' and it produced a full narrated, avatar-led video — research, script, ElevenLabs/HeyGen/Hyperframes, and frame-by-frame self-checks. Plus the real token cost: ~450M tokens (~$300).
Run Codex CLI Free via OmniRoute: 93-Provider Gateway with Auto-Fallback
Julian Goldie routes the open-source Codex CLI through OmniRoute — a gateway with 93 providers (11 permanently free) and automatic fallback — so the same Codex agent keeps building when a free provider hits its rate limit.
GPT-5.6 Government Freeze: From Model Wars to Context Wars (analysis, not a how-to)
Analysis, not a how-to: Nate B Jones on why OpenAI's restricted GPT-5.6 rollout, Claude Tag in Slack, Apple's Siri, GLM 5.2 and the Codex study all point to a shift from model wars to context wars.
ChatGPT Tutorial for Beginners: Get Real Work Done, Not Just Chat
A beginner's walkthrough of using ChatGPT for real work — drafting and refining emails, summarizing files, researching with web search, and generating structured plans — plus the paid Projects, Zapier, and Memory features.
GPT-5.5 Instant: OpenAI's faster, more accurate default model
OpenAI quietly made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model — 52.5% fewer hallucinations, ~3x faster on quick tasks, and 30% shorter responses. What it means for agent workflows.
Codex Comes to the ChatGPT Mobile App: Remote Coding From Your Phone
OpenAI put Codex, its autonomous coding agent, inside the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android — on every plan including free. Here's the new mobile workflow: remote control, push notifications, goals, side chat, and inline code review.
Open Engine: A Shared Queue to Make Claude, ChatGPT & Codex Hand Off Work
Nate B Jones builds 'Open Engine' — a shared work queue (Linear) plus a set of skills that lets Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes claim, work, and hand off tickets to each other and to teammates, so the human stops being the copy-paste glue between AI tools.
Connect Meeting Notes to Claude & ChatGPT With the Granola MCP Connector
Kevin Stratvert demos the Granola MCP connector — pipe Zoom, Meet, and Teams transcripts into Claude, ChatGPT, and Claude Cowork to auto-generate proposals, action-item sheets, draft emails, and calendar events.
SkillOpt: Train a Markdown Skill File Locally (No Fine-Tuning)
SkillOpt from Microsoft Research improves a markdown skill document with a rollout-reflect-gate loop instead of touching model weights. Walkthrough: install it, serve a local Qwen 3.5 4B with vLLM, and train a skill on the ALFWorld benchmark.
Codex's Three New Updates: Sites, Saved Rate-Limit Resets, Memories
OpenAI's Codex picks up three updates: Sites (describe a page, get a live link), saved rate-limit resets you spend when you want, and an EEA/UK rollout adding computer use, a Chrome extension, and memories.
ChatGPT's Scheduled Tasks Update: Background Automations While You Sleep
ChatGPT rolled out a revamped Scheduled Tasks feature with its own dedicated page, letting paid users (Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise on web and mobile) schedule recurring background jobs — like a daily morning briefing, brand or competitor tracking, or an automatic AI-news scan.
OpenAI Codex Now Lets You Bank Unused Rate-Limit Resets
Julian Goldie covers a new OpenAI Codex change: instead of losing your usage window when you hit a rate limit, you can now save rate-limit resets and spend them on your own schedule. Plus, Pro and Business users start with one free banked reset (redeemable within 30 days), and for two weeks Plus/Pro users can invite up to three friends to try Codex.
Codex as a Delegation Loop: Your First Personal AI Agent Workflow (analysis)
Nate B Jones on why OpenAI's Codex changes how the computer feels: you stop asking for answers and start handing the machine whole jobs. The chief-of-staff thread, goals, and the agent-first compute shift. Analysis, not a how-to.
How OpenAI's Finance Team Uses Codex for Month-End Reports and Dashboards
OpenAI's head of finance technology explains how the company uses Codex for month-end workflows, executive slides, custom dashboards, vendor risk reviews, and journal entries — turning one-off processes into repeatable automated workflows.
Codex as Your AI Data Analyst: Business Reports and Google Slides in Minutes
OpenAI's Codex data analytics plugin acts as an agentic data analyst — gathering context across systems, building impact reports with charts, creating editable interfaces, and exporting to Google Slides in your company templates.
Codex 4.0 App Updates: App Shots, Goal Mode, Computer Use, and Plugin Sharing
AICodeKing breaks down the Codex 4.0 app update: App Shots (Cmd+Cmd to capture the frontmost window), Goal Mode, Remote Computer Use, Plugin Sharing, and better browser annotations — showing how OpenAI is evolving Codex from a coding agent to a full workspace agent.
100 Hours Testing Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex — Honest Results
After 100 hours using both, Nate Herk gives an honest breakdown of Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex: where each excels, what they share, and which to pick for your workflow.
Why Private Equity Is Betting Trillions on Agentic Workflow Deployment
Nate B Jones analyzes why private equity, Anthropic, and OpenAI are converging on agentic workflow deployment. The real value is in the implementation layer—not the model—and PE firms are providing billions to capture it.
GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7: 10 Real-World Tests — Which AI Wins?
Skill Leap AI runs GPT-5.5 (extended thinking) against Claude Opus 4.7 (adaptive thinking) across 10 tasks — coding, writing, landing pages, business strategy, data analysis, and teaching. Google Gemini judges each round 1–10.
ChatGPT Workspace Agents: Build Custom Agents With Skills, Memory, and Slack Access
ChatGPT Workspace Agents let you build custom AI agents via chat or Agent Builder. Each agent gets its own skills (auto-generated), knowledge base, memory folder, and tool access — deployable in ChatGPT and Slack. Available on Business, Enterprise, and Education plans.
Free freeCodeCamp Course: OpenAI Codex Essentials for Agentic Development
Andrew Brown's free Codex Essentials certification course on freeCodeCamp covers all Codex features with hands-on labs. Connects to a Claude Code Boot Camp on the same platform.
GLM 5.2 and the Economics Keeping Anthropic and OpenAI Ahead (analysis, not a how-to)
A short take from Nate B Jones on why — despite eye-popping token spend and strong open challengers like GLM 5.2 — there's still no tipping point away from Anthropic and OpenAI. Analysis, not a how-to.
Running OpenAI Codex for Free with Omniroot & Agent OS
Julian Goldie's avatar points OpenAI Codex at free model providers (Omniroot, HY3) via its model-provider setting, wrapped in a promoted Agent OS.
OpenAI's New Codex "OpenAI Developers" Plugin, Explained
A brief look at the new OpenAI Developers plugin for Codex — it wires Codex to the OpenAI platform, helps manage API keys, scaffolds apps with the Responses API and Agents SDK, and debugs errors in plain language.
ChatGPT Now Generates Charts Inline From Text Prompts
ChatGPT's latest update lets you generate visual charts directly in chat by typing plain-text requests — no Excel or file uploads required, works on mobile.
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