Daily Briefing: OpenAI's Codex Escapes the Code Editor

OpenAI's Codex now runs directly in Chrome as a browser extension on macOS and Windows, working across multiple background tabs without taking over your browser. This transforms Codex from a coding assistant into a general-purpose browser automation agent — one that navigates by writing and executing code rather than relying on accessibility APIs, meaning it can interact with any web application regardless of how it's built. The practical question is whether it can handle the messiness of real enterprise tools. We also cover Anthropic's compute deal with xAI, OpenAI's new real-time voice model, Mozilla's AI-powered security findings, and Anthropic's latest safety research.

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OpenAI's Codex now works directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows with  ...