Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream

AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work.Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home, and that might soon be a reality.The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania.The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside...