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Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. The coding tool can now run multiple agents across applications on your computer. Codex is getting new, proactive capabilities. Codex is less than a year old, but the AI coding platform may be the key to OpenAI’s dream of a superapp — a theoretical one-stop shop for ChatGPT, its Atlas browser and Codex. OpenAI said that Codex, not ChatGPT, will be the foundation for this app. “We’re actually doing the sneaky thing where we’re building the super app in the open and evolving it out of the Codex app,” Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead for Codex, told reporters during a briefing this week. Codex has been a popular app of choice for AI developers and vibe coders. As of now, OpenAI says Codex has more than 3 million weekly users. But nearly half of Codex use is for non-coding tasks, according to OpenAI. So the company on Thursday announced a series of updates to make Codex more integrated into every p

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