OpenAI Updates

Everything OpenAI has shipped, in one place.

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OpenAIfeature

Link·May 21, 2026

Codex Appshots, Goal Mode, and Locked Computer Use

Three updates to Codex, OpenAI's coding agent: it can pull in context from another app window, work toward a goal on its own, and keep running on a Mac after the screen locks.

Best for: Developers using Codex who want it to act with more context and more independence.
When to use it: You want Codex to push toward an outcome over hours without re-prompting, or to act on what is open in another app.
Who benefits: Engineering teams running Codex day to day, including anyone driving it from a phone.

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 19, 2026

SynthID Watermark for ChatGPT Images

Images made in ChatGPT now carry an invisible tag that marks them as AI-generated.

Best for: Knowing whether an image was made by AI
When to use it: You publish or share images and want people to be able to tell what is AI-made
Who benefits: Anyone sharing visuals: marketers, social teams, newsrooms

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 19, 2026

OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity

New offering letting customers lock in long-term access to OpenAI compute.

Best for: Companies building production workloads on OpenAI that need predictable compute
When to use it: You're scaling a real product and can't risk capacity limits during peak usage
Who benefits: Enterprise platform teams and AI infrastructure leads

May 2026

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 14, 2026

Codex Hooks and Programmatic Access Tokens

Customize the Codex loop with scripted hooks, and issue scoped credentials for Business and Enterprise automation.

Best for: Teams wiring Codex into CI, internal automation, or per-repo workflows.
When to use it: Need to run validators, scan prompts for secrets, log conversations, or use Codex from a release workflow.
Who benefits: Business and Enterprise platform owners and developer-experience teams.

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 14, 2026

Codex in the ChatGPT Mobile App (Preview)

Start, review, and steer Codex tasks from iOS or Android while your computer keeps doing the work.

Best for: Codex users who want to kick off or review tasks away from their laptop.
When to use it: Trigger work, approve next steps, or monitor an in-flight task from your phone.
Who benefits: Developers running Codex on a laptop, Mac mini, or devbox.

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 11, 2026

Daybreak

OpenAI's product for cyber defense teams, combining frontier models, Codex, and security partners.

Best for: security teams automating threat detection, validation, and response.
When to use it: you're a defender trying to keep pace with attackers' speed.
Who benefits: SOC analysts and security engineers who currently triage alerts manually.

OpenAImodel

Link·May 7, 2026

GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, and Whisper

Three new realtime audio models in the API for voice agents that reason, translate, and transcribe live.

Best for: Voice agents that need to reason, translate across languages, or transcribe speech live over the Realtime API.
When to use it: Existing voice products hitting limits of older Realtime models on tool use, recovery, or live multilingual translation.
Who benefits: Developers shipping voice agents for support, scheduling, dubbing, or transcription who need GPT-5-class reasoning with low latency.

OpenAIfeature

Link·May 7, 2026

Codex Chrome Extension

OpenAI's coding agent now works inside Chrome on macOS and Windows, running tasks across tabs in the background using the user's signed-in browser state.

Best for: agent tasks that need a logged-in website (LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, internal tools)
When to use it: a job needs a signed-in app the agent cannot reach via plugins or API
Who benefits: developers and power users already running Codex who want it to drive their browser

OpenAImodel

Link·May 5, 2026

GPT-5.5 Instant

New default ChatGPT model with fewer hallucinations, shorter responses.

Best for: everyday ChatGPT use where accuracy and concise answers matter
When to use it: fact-sensitive prompts in medicine, law, finance, or any task where ChatGPT used to ramble
Who benefits: all ChatGPT users