OpenAI announced yesterday Codex Desktop, a new native macOS app that treats AI coding agents like teammates you can direct, review and set loose on long tasks.

OpenAI is trying to win market share from rivals like Anthropic and Cursor as AI coding tools gain in popularity.

OpenAI gives an example of how this could work in practice. The company used Codex to create a Mario Kart-like racing game, ...

Apple's Xcode 26.3 integrates Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex, letting AI agents autonomously write, build, and test ...

OpenAI has launched a new Codex desktop app for macOS that lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, shifting software development from writing code to managing autonomous tasks and ...

OpenAI has packaged Codex into a user-friendly macOS app, and it's doubling rate limits for most paid subscribers to ...

OpenAI launches Codex desktop app for AI coding, enabling multi-agent workflows, skills, and expanded access for ChatGPT ...

Users will have to connect their OpenAI or Anthropic accounts to Xcode via an API key. Apple said it uses an open standard ...

OpenAI has rolled out a new Codex desktop app for macOS that lets developers manage multiple AI agents at once, run parallel ...

The app gives developers a centralized workspace to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects without losing task ...

The battle for hearts and minds is now engaged on Mac desktops, especially when it comes to wooing developers.

By launching a desktop app, OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic’s popular Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version.