Sam Altman announced that the company’s GPT-5-Codex-powered AI coding tool is now out of research preview and has a direct Slack integration, with more features coming soon.
Cisco, Duolingo, and Instacart are a few of the companies he mentioned that are already using Codex.
OpenAI has acquired Roi, a personal investing startup backed by Kevin Durant that promised AI-driven “insights, education, and guidance.”
Roi will shut down its service, which offered traditional investment options alongside crypto and NFTs, on October 15th and says it’s deleting all user data.
Previously, Google’s AI coding agent Jules was accessible on GitHub or its website. Now, developers can access it directly in their terminal using a new command line interface or in tools like Slack using the newly available Jules API. Support for Google Workspace users is coming later this month, the company says.
xAI is recruiting humans to train its AI system Grok to “excel” at making video games, according to the company’s job posting for a “video games tutor.”
Elon Musk has discussed this before, saying he wants to “make games great again!”
You will use proprietary software to provide labels, annotations, and inputs on projects involving game mechanics, narratives, and design elements. You must support the delivery of high-quality curated data that enhances AI’s understanding of gaming principles and outputs.”
Users of OpenAI’s chatbot can now buy that last-minute birthday gift for a friend via Etsy without leaving ChatGPT. Instant Checkouts powered by OpenAI’s new “Agentic commerce protocol” are free for users, but merchants need to pay a fee (of unspecified amount, per the WSJ) to complete the order.
