OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
OpenAI shipped a major overhaul of Codex with expanded agentic capabilities for desktop control, positioning it directly against Anthropic's coding offerings.
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OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
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