After a week of competing launches — Codex plugins, Claude Code updates, Copilot policy changes — the real question for most developers isn't "what shipped?" but "what should I actually be using?" A post on DEV Community published Saturday offers the most systematic answer of the

The financial machinery behind OpenAI's breakneck product pace came into sharper focus this week: SoftBank has taken a $40 billion unsecured loan — backed by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and four Japanese banks — to fund its $30B commitment to OpenAI's record $110B fundraising round. The 12-month loan

GitHub has updated its Copilot data usage policy with a change that every Free, Pro, and Pro+ subscriber needs to act on before April 24, 2026. Starting that date, interaction data — including your prompts, code completions, and surrounding context — will be used to train GitHub's AI models by

OpenAI has expanded its Codex agentic coding platform with a plugin system that goes well beyond the user-facing integrations angle — and InfoWorld's deep-dive reveals the enterprise governance layer is the real story. Each plugin bundles together Skills (task-specific prompts the agent can discover and run), App Integrations (connectors

OpenAI's Codex plugin launch isn't just a feature addition — it's a workflow standardization play. ZDNET's practitioner-focused breakdown highlights the core promise: teams no longer have to rebuild integration setups from scratch every time they want Codex to work with their toolchain. Install

OpenAI has shipped plugin support for Codex, its agentic coding app — and the move signals a deliberate expansion beyond pure coding into broader knowledge-work automation. The new plugin system bundles Skills (prompt-driven workflow templates), App integrations (connectors to external services), and MCP servers into a single one-click install from a

OpenAI shipped Codex CLI v0.117.0 today, and it's one of the more architecturally meaningful releases the tool has seen. The headline feature is plugins becoming a genuine first-class citizen: they now sync automatically at startup, can be browsed and managed via a /plugins command, and come

OpenAI's push to make Codex a household name just got a lot more literal. Today's ChatGPT mobile update adds Codex as a first-class shortcut in the app's sidebar quick-launch bar — sitting alongside Images, Pulse, and Apps — rolling out now on iOS and web, with

GitHub's latest Copilot update brings meaningful workflow improvements for teams already living in Jira and Confluence. The headline additions include model selection directly from within Jira — so developers can choose which underlying AI model handles a given task without leaving their project management context — and Jira ticket references

GitHub quietly dropped a policy update that's worth every developer's attention: starting April 24, 2026, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train AI models by default. That means inputs, outputs, code snippets, and session context could all be feeding

OpenAI has officially discontinued Sora — its AI video generation platform — just six months after launch, marking a dramatic shift in strategy as the company prepares for an IPO. CEO Sam Altman's "launch everything" era is over. In its place, OpenAI is consolidating around a unified desktop