
Claude Code product lead Cat Wu joins OpenAI to run Codex and ChatGPT
Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code at Anthropic, has joined OpenAI to lead its Core Products team — the unit behind Codex — just weeks before Anthropic’s planned IPO.
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Codex is the subject of recent coverage exploring its performance alongside other coding tools and its integration into cloud platforms. Reports also detail new watermarking methods applied to the software.

Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code at Anthropic, has joined OpenAI to lead its Core Products team — the unit behind Codex — just weeks before Anthropic’s planned IPO.

Anthropic has lost Catherine Wu, the product lead behind Claude Code, to OpenAI. She’s now heading product management for OpenAI’s 'Core Products' — a role that includes Codex and ChatGPT — effective immediately.

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a physical hardware device end-to-end in under seven days, including mechanical, electrical, and software layers. Prototypes shipped in under a month, but required multiple iterations due to unaccounted-for manufacturing constraints.

Claude Code can build its own replacement — and so can Codex and Antigravity. That’s not speculation. It’s what XDA Developers demonstrated in a live experiment published 3 November 2026...

Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity now share a single project folder — not as rivals, but as teammates.

OpenAI reversed a planned cut to ChatGPT Pro 200 usage and doubled limits for all Pro tiers and Business Premium after subscriber backlash, with the change taking effect October 29.

A writer at XDA Developers tested a two-step AI coding workflow, using Codex to build a website and Claude Code to review it, surfacing a compressed stylesheet, contrast problems and a data-loss bug.

OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6.1 Terra for ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, claiming faster computer-use performance, fewer factual errors and benchmark scores close to its priciest models at a fraction of the cost.

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model priced well below its flagship Astra and Sol tiers that still outperforms GPT-6 Luna on accuracy and completes computer-use tasks three times faster.

A hands-on experiment running Claude Code, Codex and Cursor on the identical Claude Sonnet 5.5 model found the underlying AI produced near-identical fixes, but each coding tool diverged sharply on testing habits, code restructuring and even language choice.

OpenAI and Google Cloud have struck a deal bringing GPT-6 models and Codex tools to Google's Model Garden for enterprise customers, with Microsoft still OpenAI's primary cloud partner.

OpenAI and Google Cloud said GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and the Codex coding agent are rolling out in private preview, with wider availability expected in the coming weeks, as enterprise customers get a new way to buy OpenAI's tools.

OpenAI is rolling out invisible text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU over the coming weeks. The feature, based on its textGrain method, is optional for global API developers but not yet enabled worldwide by default.

OpenAI has launched textGrain, its text watermarking technology, to comply with the EU AI Act. It will appear in ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the European Union in coming weeks; API users worldwide can opt in immediately.

OpenAI is rolling out invisible watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex text output in the European Union — starting this week.