Here's how the spear-phishing attack works: Hackers sent .zip files to OpenAI staff claiming to detail the sender's "problems," accompanied by a formal email about how they found "shortcomings" in ...

Microsoft and OpenAI say that state backed-hackers were using generative AI tools to improve their cyberattacks. The groups used OpenAI tools to draft phishing emails, debug code and research targets.

Early on Friday, OpenAI revealed a preview of Codex, the company's stab at a specialty coding "agent" — a fluffy industry term that seems to change definitions depending on which company is ...

The Codex agent runs in a sandboxed, virtual computer in the cloud. By connecting with GitHub, Codex’s environment can come preloaded with your code repositories. OpenAI says the AI coding agent ...

OpenAI launched Codex, an AI tool to write codes and fix bugs for developers. As an AI Agent, Codex could also help users with an Amazon order or a dinner reservation. Codex and GPT-4.5, which was ...

Of note is OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, a popular vibe coding application formerly known as Codium that brings AI-generated code into programmers' existing projects.

It’s also open source, OpenAI says. “ [Codex CLI is] a lightweight, open source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal,” an OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch via email.

Instead, OpenAI "limits the agent’s interaction solely to the code explicitly provided via GitHub repositories and pre-installed dependencies configured by the user via a setup script." ...