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🚀 OpenAI has released a major update to Codex, its agentic coding assistant, adding a native VS Code extension and expanded terminal and IDE support. Plus and Pro subscribers can now use Codex with every build across web, terminal, and IDE without separate API keys, as the service links to your ChatGPT account to preserve session state. The release also adds a Seamless Local ↔ Cloud Handoff to delegate paired local tasks to the cloud asynchronously, alongside CLI command upgrades and bug fixes; competitors like Claude are pursuing similar web-to-terminal integrations.

📚 ChatGPT now offers an interactive flashcard-style quiz feature within its new Study and Learn tool, designed to help users evaluate and reinforce their knowledge on any topic. Using models such as GPT-5-Thinking (or Instant/Default), the assistant generates embedded flashcards, presents answer choices, and provides a running scorecard at the end of the quiz. The system preserves conversational memory so it can refine future quizzes and adapt to a learner’s progress, aligning with research that shows testing improves retention.

🧠 OpenAI is testing a new "Thinking effort" picker for ChatGPT that lets users set how much internal compute—or "juice"—the model can spend on a response. The feature offers four levels: light (5), standard (18), extended (48) and max (200), with higher settings producing deeper but slower replies. The 200 "max" tier is gated behind a $200 Pro plan. OpenAI positions the picker as a way to give users more control over response depth and speed.

🤖 Cloudflare's mid‑2025 dataset shows AI training crawlers now account for nearly 80% of AI bot activity, driving a surge in crawling while sending far fewer human referrals. Google referrals to news sites fell sharply in March–April 2025 as AI Overviews and Gemini upgrades reduced click-throughs. OpenAI’s GPTBot and Anthropic’s ClaudeBot increased crawling share while ByteDance’s Bytespider declined. The resulting crawl-to-refer imbalance — tens of thousands of crawls per human click for some platforms — threatens publisher revenue.

🔒 ESET disclosed a new proof-of-concept ransomware called PromptLock that uses OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b model via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real time. Written in Golang, the strain produces cross-platform scripts that enumerate files, exfiltrate selected data, and encrypt targets using SPECK 128-bit. ESET warned that AI-generated scripts can vary per execution, complicating detection and IoC reuse.

🔒 Cloudflare One users can now connect OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini to Cloudflare's API CASB to scan GenAI tenants for misconfigurations, DLP matches, data exposure, and compliance risks without installing endpoint agents. The API CASB provides out-of-band posture and DLP analysis, while Cloudflare Gateway delivers inline prompt controls and Shadow AI identification. Integrations are available in the dashboard or through your account manager.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock now supports Batch inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS (120B, 20B), enabling asynchronous processing of large workloads at approximately 50% of on-demand inference cost. The update targets bulk scenarios such as document analysis, large-scale summarization, content generation, and structured data extraction, and is optimized to deliver higher overall batch throughput on these newer models. Batch progress and workload metrics — including pending and processed records, tokens per minute, and Claude-specific pending tokens — are exposed at the AWS account level via Amazon CloudWatch.

🎧 In episode 63 of The AI Fix, hosts Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley dissect a wide range of AI developments and controversies. Topics include Unitree Robotics referencing Black Mirror to market its A2 robot dog, concerns over shared ChatGPT conversations appearing in Google, and OpenAI releasing gpt-oss, its first open-weight model since GPT-2. The show also examines ethical issues around AI-created avatars of deceased individuals and separates the hype from the reality of GPT-5 claims.

🚀 Today Microsoft announced general availability of OpenAI's flagship model, GPT-5, in Azure AI Foundry, positioning it as a frontier LLM for enterprise applications. The GPT-5 family (GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, GPT-5 nano, GPT-5 chat) spans deep reasoning, real-time responsiveness, and ultra-low-latency options, all accessible through a single Foundry endpoint and managed by a model router to optimize cost and performance. Foundry pairs agent orchestration, tool-calling, developer controls, telemetry, and compliance-aware deployment choices to help organizations move from pilot projects to production.

🔐 AWS provides a containerized sample to test post-quantum hybrid TLS (PQ TLS) from Python by bundling OpenSSL 3.5 with a standard interpreter and common libraries. The sample demonstrates hybrid key exchange using ML-KEM alongside classical algorithms and includes examples for boto3/AWS CLI, requests, and low-level ssl sockets. It also shows how to capture traffic and confirm PQ negotiation in TLS handshakes.