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Agents got more portable and programmable: OpenAI’s ChatGPT app now steers Codex remotely, and Codex gained hooks for safer, automatable loops. xAI’s Grok Build debuted as an agentic CLI, while Vercel added natural‑language firewall rules and IBM shipped multilingual embeddings. Anthropic mixed policy and impact with a U.S.–China paper and a $200M initiative, as auditors flagged AI scribes’ reliability gaps.
Use the ChatGPT mobile app to monitor, steer, and approve Codex tasks while they run on your desktop or devbox, bringing real-time agent control across devices.
Work with Codex from anywhere — Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.
New hooks let you run scripts before and after work, scan prompts for secrets, log conversations, and build memories—making the Codex loop safer, auditable, and extensible.
Codex is getting easier to automate and customize around your code. 🪝 Hooks customize the Codex loop with scripts that run at key points in a task: • Run validators before or after work • Scan prompts for secrets • Log conversations to internal systems • Create memories or pic.x.com/mb0LhxwHR6
You can now define firewall rules like path blocks, rate limits, and challenges in plain English, speeding up protection without detouring into regexes or config syntax.
Vercel Firewall now supports creating custom rules with natural language: ▪︎ Block all /wp-admin requests ▪︎ Rate limit /login to 5 attempts per IP ▪︎ Challenge /checkout requests from node vercel.com/changelog/crea…
Early beta of Grok Build offers an agentic CLI for coding, app building, and workflow automation to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, with feedback driving rapid iteration.
An early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows is now available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. Through this early beta, we will improve the model and product based on your feedback. Try it at x.ai/cli pic.x.com/Rlg4qMLkrv
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation pledged $200M in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to accelerate AI applications in health, education, agriculture, and economic mobility.
We’re partnering with the Gates Foundation, committing $200 million in grants, Claude credits, and technical support to programs in global health, life sciences, education, agriculture, and economic mobility. Read more: anthropic.com/news/gates-fou…
IBM’s Granite Embedding Multilingual R2 lands under Apache 2.0 with a 32K context window and state‑of‑the‑art sub‑100M retrieval performance for multilingual RAG.
Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality
In a new policy paper, Anthropic argues the U.S. and allies lead frontier AI and outlines concrete steps needed to sustain that edge amid tightening competition.
Ontario’s review reports medical note‑taking AIs often miss basic facts, underscoring reliability and liability risks when deploying LLM assistants in high‑stakes clinical workflows.
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts — Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142188 Points: 131 # Comments: 55
Send your system prompt first to seed the cache without generating output, cutting time‑to‑first‑token for long prompts in production API workloads.
Useful tip to cut time-to-first-token on longer prompts in the API: pre-warm the prompt cache. Send your system prompt before the user prompt. Claude writes it to the cache, but skips generating any output. When the real user request lands, it'll hit a warm cache. pic.x.com/6BdEzbamr2
Greg Brockman frames using Codex from the ChatGPT app as a major step toward agents that work continuously and follow you seamlessly across devices.
You can now use Codex, wherever you have it running, from the ChatGPT app. Huge step forward for universal usage of agents. x.com/openai/status/…