OpenAI makes Codex's Auto-review free, drawing no usage from your plan
Day two of the Codex team's 28-day pledge: Auto-review, a second agent that approves risky actions, no longer draws on your plan.
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Hit Codex limits? OpenAI vows relief: an upgrade or a reset every day for 28 days
OpenAI's Codex team says each day brings either an upgrade or a full usage reset. Day 1 brought a faster default speed. Plus default spending caps, Copilot's retired models and Claude Code's mod patches.
Claude Code adds mods: plugins that reach into its interface
Claude Code's new mods can rewrite its interface and behavior; a built-in one flags what you or Claude might miss. Three more stories inside.
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, invite only for now
Gemini 4 Argon tops one coding benchmark in Google's own table but is invite only for now. GPT-6.1 Sol's speed complaints draw a promised fix from OpenAI's Codex team. Two more stories inside.
OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol and dots, its always-on agents
GPT-6.1 Sol lists at Sonnet 5.5's price and leads it at medium effort in an independent test; dots are agents that run around the clock. Four more stories inside.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench, up from 10.3%, it says
Same price as Sonnet 5, and Anthropic says up to 30% less per task. An outside firm measured about 50% more at maximum effort. Three more stories inside.
Hit the limit? Claude Code now wraps up instead of cutting off mid-edit
It spends a small, fixed allowance from your weekly limit: once a week on Pro, every time on Max and Team Premium. Three more stories inside.
OpenAI planning $500/mo Pro Max? A ChatGPT tier leaks, TestingCatalog says
A $500 tier with "Fastest Work and Codex" sits in unreleased ChatGPT plan text, TestingCatalog says; OpenAI hasn't confirmed it. Two more stories inside.
Claude Code cloud sessions go live, with a $100 or $250 credit to try them
Existing Pro and Max subscribers get a one-time $100 or $250 credit, spent before plan usage. Two more stories inside.
Opus 5.5 costs 37% of Opus 5 per task
At each model's default setting, two independent benchmarks put Opus 5.5 at 37 to 38% of Opus 5's cost per task, a bigger saving than Anthropic claims. At max effort it costs more.
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol ship hours apart, each cheaper than before
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday, each cheaper per token, and Artificial Analysis has first coding numbers for both. One more story inside.
Grok 4.7 ships at half rivals' price, SpaceXAI says
SpaceXAI prices Grok 4.7 at $2 per million input tokens; its own table puts Anthropic's Fable 5.1 ahead on both coding benchmarks.