OpenAI has refashioned Codex into the centerpiece of its product — effectively making the agent, not the chat window, the new ChatGPT. Ben Thompson asks whether the company is quietly abandoning the chat category it pioneered.
OpenAI's Codex has started encrypting the prompts it passes to sub-agents, so users can no longer inspect what instructions the harness is actually sending. The issue thread is a referendum on how much of an agent's internals a vendor owes its users.
New York became the first state to halt new data center construction with a moratorium — the first real legislative brake on the AI infrastructure buildout.
Google is mounting a direct sales campaign to move Nvidia's biggest customers onto TPUs, turning its in-house chip program into an open ground war with the supplier it still buys from at scale.