OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, calling it its most capable and efficient AI model yet, with AI agents, computer control, improved reasoning, and a 1M-token context.

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OpenAI has launched Codex for Open Source, offering maintainers six months of free ChatGPT Pro and API credits amid a surge of AI-generated pull requests.

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