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Tue, Oct 6
Codex delivers on day one of its 28-day pledge: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol go from 30 to 50 tokens per second for subscribers
Delivering speed first while allowances are being questioned answers a question only heavy users calculate with a metric everyone can feel.
Mon, Oct 5
OpenAI's Codex lead pledges one improvement a day for 28 days, or a usage reset for users
Competition among coding agents is now counted by the day, and the way to keep users has shifted from releasing a new model to promising there is something to collect every day.
GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT and Codex on October 14, less than six months after launch
A well-liked model is withdrawn in under six months, so what a subscription buys is "the current latest," not a version you can rely on for long.
The Codex system prompt for GPT-6 Sol leaks, with 1,900-plus lines showing how OpenAI disciplines its coding agent
As models converge, more of the difference in product experience comes from these thousands of unseen lines, which are exactly the part most easily extracted and copied.
Sat, Aug 29
OpenAI confirms it is testing a persistent Codex mode, with no near-term launch plans
Going from "run a task" to "always on" changes both the billing unit and the permission model for agents.
Fri, Aug 28
OpenAI tests a persistent Codex mode that works across sessions until put to sleep
Going from "run a task" to "always on" changes both the billing unit and the permission model for agents.