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OpenAI is testing a 'Persistent mode' in Codex, designed to let AI agents 'continue working until put to sleep' and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
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- OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
- OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-08-27