AI Coding Live News

At 00:43 UTC on Nov 1, Tibo (@thsottiaux), who works on Codex and ChatGPT at OpenAI, posted "Banked 1/2" on X; the post has about 6,860 likes and 660K views. In his day 26 post the day before he had teased that "next two days will be resets… banked…", so this is day 27 of his 28-day run: the first of two Codex usage resets you can save and use when you choose. According to OpenAI's Help Center, a banked reset does not refresh usage on arrival; you redeem it in desktop Settings > Usage & billing, web Usage settings, or /usage in the CLI. Eligible plans and the expiry for this particular offer have not been published.

On Oct 29, OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT lead Tibo announced on X that usage for Pro 100/200/500 and Business Premium doubles effective today. OpenAI's Help Center confirms that Pro 100 and Pro 500 now get twice their previous Work and Codex allowance, the Pro 200 reduction announced in a Sept 29 email is canceled, and Pro 200 subscribers on the lower allowance are doubled up to the higher one. Plus is unchanged.

At 19:21 UTC on 2026-10-24, Tibo (@thsottiaux), whose X bio reads "Codex & ChatGPT @OpenAI", posted: "DM if you want to help scale dots to 1B users and have done similar things in the past" (post); it had about 5,524 likes, 1,506 replies and 710K views when we pulled it. Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang), whose X bio says he is chief AI officer at Meta, replied "oops you misspelled muse" (about 1,935 likes), and Tibo shot back with "Celebrate your 12 users" (about 1,845 likes). The public back-and-forth between the two companies' executives became one of the most talked-about AI threads of the past half day. It is a hiring post and banter between executives, not a user count or product plan published by OpenAI.

OpenAI's Codex lead Tibo says GPT-6.1 Sol's default context in Codex and ChatGPT Work goes from 272K to 500K (~80% more) to cut compactions on long tasks, with no long-context fees when usage comes from a ChatGPT subscription. Separately, the official Codex changelog says GPT-5.5 retires from ChatGPT and Codex on all plans on October 14 (the API keeps it).

On Oct 5, Codex lead Thibault "Tibo" Sottiaux committed that for the next 28 days OpenAI will ship one clear improvement for most Codex/ChatGPT Work users each day, or give everyone a full usage reset. Day 1 is an inference speedup: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol are ~50% faster by default on subscriptions (roughly 30 to 50 tokens/s), including partner tools using Sign in with ChatGPT. No API speed change was announced.

OpenAI’s Tibo said new subscriptions to the $200 Pro plan are paused so current users keep strong Astra access—the tier puts the most strain on systems, and this is the smallest step to preserve broad availability. All other plans and the API remain available; existing accounts are unaffected while capacity is added.

OpenAI Developers said GPT-Live-1 is available in the API: bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth into your app with voice agents that listen while they speak, using the models and harness you choose. OpenAI’s Tibo also noted builders can use the same full-duplex voice stack shipped to ~1B ChatGPT users, with solid tool calling.

OpenAI's Tibo said Aidan and Sasha from the Git AI team are joining OpenAI. They built an open-source tool that helps developers see how coding agents contribute to a codebase. Together they aim to make Codex's impact clearer for individuals and teams, while keeping Git AI open source and continuing to invest in it.

OpenAI engineer Tibo told Astra users they fixed quality regressions: prior-model skills firing too often, an opt-in context-management experiment causing early stops/old-message replies (~4–5k users; now disabled), and badly configured engines hurting a long tail of traffic. Follow-through and latest-message tracking should feel better, with a reset landing by midnight.

OpenAI Codex lead Tibo said GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark will be retired next week—usage has declined and significantly better models are available, so it is making room for what comes next.

OpenAI Codex/ChatGPT lead Tibo (@thsottiaux) clarified that third-party clients using Sign in With ChatGPT for Codex is not an approved use. OpenAI supports pure open-source clients and partners with existing relationships; others must reach out. The clarification matters for third-party Codex clients and proxy tooling compliance.

OpenAI Codex/ChatGPT lead Tibo (@thsottiaux) said OpenAI will do a global usage reset for all paid subscriptions so people can keep using Astra after burning through quota. Expected around 6pm PST today.