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llm-openai-via-codex 0.1a0
Release: llm-openai-via-codex 0.1a0 Hijacks your Codex CLI credentials to make API calls with LLM, as described in my post about GPT-5.5. Tags: openai, llm, codex-cli
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Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax
Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping. Anthropic already supported connecting numerous work-related apps to Claude, like Microsoft apps, but this expansion focuses on personal apps like Audible, Spotify,...
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Anthropic’s Mythos breach was humiliating
Anthropic's tightly controlled rollout of Claude Mythos has taken an awkward turn. After spending weeks insisting the AI model is so capable at cybersecurity that it is too dangerous to release publicly, it appears the model fell into the wrong hands anyway. According to Bloomberg, a "small group...
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Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter
System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.…
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Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain
Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing Anthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.…
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’
OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.
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OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and...
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Introducing GPT-5.5
Introducing GPT-5.5, our smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools.
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GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.
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OpenAI’s New GPT-5.5 Powers Codex on NVIDIA Infrastructure — and NVIDIA Is Already Putting It to Work
AI agents have revolutionized developer workflows, and their next frontier is knowledge work: processing information, solving complex problems, coming up with new ideas and driving innovation. Codex, OpenAI’s agentic coding application, is enabling this new frontier. It’s now powered by GPT-5.5,...
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A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API
GPT-5.5 is out. It's available in OpenAI Codex and is rolling out to paid ChatGPT subscribers. I've had some preview access and found it to be a fast, effective and highly capable model. As is usually the case these days, it's hard to put into words what's good about it - I ask it to build things...
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Meet Noscroll, an AI bot that does your doomscrolling for you
Noscroll wants to cure doomscrolling with an AI bot that reads the internet for you.
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Meta is laying off 10 percent of its staff
Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 people will see their jobs cut. Meta will also be closing around 6,000 open roles, according to Gale....
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In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe
Technically speaking, there's no practical benefit to use PQC. So why is it being used?
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Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the future of one of the world's biggest companies.
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At 'AI Coachella,' Stanford Students Line Up to Learn From Silicon Valley Royalty
CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.
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What is Codex?
Learn how Codex helps you go beyond chat by automating tasks, connecting tools, and producing real outputs like docs and dashboards.
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Automations
Learn how to automate tasks in Codex using schedules and triggers to create reports, summaries, and recurring workflows without manual effort.
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Plugins and skills
Learn how to use Codex plugins and skills to connect tools, access data, and follow repeatable workflows to automate tasks and improve results.
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Working with Codex
Learn how to set up your Codex workspace, create threads and projects, manage files, and start completing tasks with step-by-step guidance.
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How to get started with Codex
Learn how to get started with Codex by setting up projects, creating threads, and completing your first tasks with step-by-step guidance.
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Codex settings
Learn how to configure Codex settings, including personalization, detail level, and permissions, to run tasks smoothly and customize your workflow.
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Top 10 uses for Codex at work
Explore 10 practical Codex use cases to automate tasks, create deliverables, and turn real inputs into outputs across tools, files, and workflows.
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Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web
LlamaIndex have a most excellent open source project called LiteParse, which provides a Node.js CLI tool for extracting text from PDFs. I got a version of LiteParse working entirely in the browser, using most of the same libraries that LiteParse uses to run in Node.js. Spatial text parsing...
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Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment.
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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
Earlier this month, millions of OpenClaw users woke up to a sweeping mandate: The viral AI agent tool, which this year took the worldwide tech industry by storm, had been severely restricted by Anthropic. Anthropic, like other leading AI labs, was under immense pressure to lessen the strain on its...
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American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir
Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and modernize how USDA delivers services to...
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Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors
'Differentiated, but open' Google Cloud Next Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans said that the company holds a structural advantage over its largest rivals in the race to win value from AI agents in the enterprise, arguing that no competitor currently combines cloud computing infrastructure, frontier AI...
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Here’s how our TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads.
Learn how Google’s TPUs power increasingly demanding AI workloads with this new video.
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Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants
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Grab a ticket today: The first StrictlyVC of 2026 kicks off in just a week in San Francisco
StrictlyVC San Francisco is in just a week. Now’s the time to grab yourself a ticket. Join VCs and founders at Sentro Filipino Cultural Center on April 30.
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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
Astronomers are turning to GPUs to find needles in the galactic haystack.
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Beehiiv rolls out new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls
The announcement is a clear sign the company is trying to become an all-in-one hub for creators, reducing the hassle of juggling various tools and services to run their businesses.
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Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for
Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand Microsoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.…
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Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar
Down to you to work out the value Datadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon.…
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Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours
Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget Partner Content The cost of training today’s large-scale foundation models is often reduced to a single number: the price of a GPU hour. It's a convenient metric. It is also the wrong one. When training...
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Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%
Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions The supply crunch gripping the storage market has pushed Everpure – the artist formerly known as Pure Storage – to reassure customers it won't make things worse.…
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AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers
Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear The chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server products.…
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Tag, You’re It: GeForce NOW Levels Up Game Discovery With Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+ Labels
GeForce NOW is doubling down on what matters most: gamers. This week’s upgrades bring smarter libraries, making it easier than ever for gamers to turn a PC collection into a cloud-powered flex. It starts with giving existing libraries time to shine. Gamers can bring the games they love to the...
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Making Sense of the Early Universe
This Spring Astronomy Day, here’s a look at how AI and GPUs are helping astronomers work through unprecedented volumes of cosmic data.
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Quoting Maggie Appleton
[...] if you ever needed another reason to learn in public by digital gardening or podcasting or streaming or whathaveyou, add on that people will assume you’re more competent than you are. This will get you invites to very cool exclusive events filled with high-achieving, interesting people, even...
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Another customer of troubled startup Delve suffered a big security incident
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident.
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THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software brain, and it’s a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases...
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Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it
Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).…
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Elevating Austria: Google invests in its first data center in the Alps.
Google has been a proud part of Austria’s landscape for years, and today, we’re announcing our first data center in Kronstorf, generating 100 direct jobs. This facility …
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Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet
EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't exist.…
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AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues
Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance to humans - the machines can now beat us...
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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses. "When we...
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India’s app market is booming — but global platforms are capturing most of the gains
Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.