
OpenAI: Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex
Qodo brings company knowledge and coding standards into Codex, helping developers catch P0 issues across repositories before opening a pull request.
A startup builds AI tools for code review that combine artificial intelligence with organizational knowledge to help developers catch critical bugs across multiple software repositories. The plugin works within a coding platform to give AI coding agents access to codebase rules, standards, and dependencies before and after they write code, then an independent review process flags issues for human developers to address. This approach treats coding and review as complementary roles, with AI agents automating work while developers focus on planning and resolving unresolved issues. The goal is creating a system where company expertise guides coding agents and human judgment handles decisions the agents cannot resolve.
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OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this quota, while simple instant chats do not count toward it. In practice, this is likely to result in a decline in ChatGPT’s quality for heavy users on lower-cost plans. The article OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt
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A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
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Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task and lets a standard language model choose the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute. The article Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would appe

OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device. Logging out doesn't automatically free up a spot. The policy will likely hit users who've been juggling multiple cheap subscriptions to maximize usage, pushing them toward pricier options like buying extra credits. The article OpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage appeared first

A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors compound and response quality drops sharply. The article Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work appeared first on The Decoder.

Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help track deforestation under EU rules, but it identifies only about half of planted forests and tree-crop areas, and 60% of plantations. The article Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI appeared first on The Decoder.