OpenAI's Codex has recently experienced multiple instances of unresponsiveness. The engineering lead confirmed that the issue has been fixed and will reset the rate limits for all users. The Codex team typically provides compensation after outages. Currently, weekly active users reach 2 million, with a growth rate of 25%.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger stated on March 8th that the OpenAI Codex desktop application surpasses command-line tools in speed and usability, marking a shift from AI coding assistance to graphical user interfaces. He demonstrated an efficient automated workflow for managing GitHub features with the Codex App.

OpenAI launched the AI-powered security application agent Codex Security on March 7, capable of discovering, verifying vulnerabilities, and proposing fixes. The tool can test code in a sandbox environment, generate PoC attack code for vulnerabilities, and is currently available to enterprise, commercial, and educational customers as a research preview.

Foresight News reports that OpenAI and the design collaboration platform Figma have announced a new integration solution that directly connects OpenAI's AI programming tool Codex with the Figma design platform. Product developers can generate Figma designs from Codex and implement designs from Figma files back into code.