Codex Can Control Your Messages Now
A week of AI-agent news: Codex takes over iMessage, GrokBot draws Claude-Code-moment comparisons, Anthropic ships /design and mobile Cowork, and Slack gives agents their own channels.
August 21stCreator
A week of AI-agent news: Codex takes over iMessage, GrokBot draws Claude-Code-moment comparisons, Anthropic ships /design and mobile Cowork, and Slack gives agents their own channels.
August 21stA week where xAI undercuts Anthropic and OpenAI on price, and GrokBot's named-agent structure hints at how every AI platform is about to fix the chat-versus-work problem.
August 15thVercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on why the first thing a new company builds soon won't be a website, it'll be an agent.
August 6thAn interview with an early power-user on why the open-source Slack-for-agents app is going viral, then a full walkthrough of running a personal AI agent team inside it.
July 29thRiley Brown runs Anthropic's freshly-released Opus 5 through a real workload, then puts the new real-time Claude Voice and OpenAI's Codex voice mode side by side to show what talking to an agent can actually do.
July 25thA first-look test of Codex's new talk-back voice mode: triaging a real inbox, editing a whiteboard, building an iOS app, and controlling it all remotely from a phone.
July 24thRiley Brown walks his cofounder through nine Codex skills that turn a coding agent into a marketing department — scraping competitors, cloning their ad creative, and drafting outreach at scale.
July 21stClaude Desktop and the Codex app both quietly shipped native, multi-tab in-app browsers within days of each other — used right, one prompt now opens, drafts, and stages a dozen tabs at once.
July 15thRiley Brown and Ras Mic dig into GPT-5.6, Codex's background computer-use, and why self-scoring agent loops are turning coding tools into a general operating system.
July 12thOne creator puts xAI's new Grok 4.5 through four real builds inside Cursor — and finds it roughly four times cheaper than Claude's Opus-tier pricing.
July 9thA YouTuber wires Claude Code into an agent-native design canvas called Paper and lets it generate thumbnails, Instagram graphics, and a full pitch deck from plain-English prompts.
July 6thA step-by-step build of a talking, screen-controlling desktop AI companion — no coding experience required, just long prompts into Cursor.
July 1stA 39-minute live build: one AI agent cloned from a template, one built from scratch, both running 24/7 in Slack and iMessage using the GRASP framework.
June 28thA 22-minute weekly roundup covering the open-source model that finally passed the vibe check, Codex screen-to-skill recording, the SpaceX/Cursor acquisition, and two Claude updates.
June 21stA 33-minute field guide to the nine structural shifts in AI agents — what's permanent, what's changing, and the five human foundations that will matter most.
June 18thA 20-minute breakdown of the $60B SpaceX–Cursor deal, a hands-on tour of the platform, and a one-prompt playbook for migrating your entire Codex or Claude skill library.
June 16thA 10-minute breakdown of the US export-control directive that pulled the most capable public AI model offline 76 hours after launch.
June 13thA 22-minute breakdown of Anthropic's Mythos-class Fable 5 model — live demos, a structural argument about building blocks, and a pricing window closing June 22.
June 12thA 27-minute briefing on Anthropic's unreleased frontier model and the five-step preparation playbook for using it before your competitors do.
June 7thA 26-minute breakdown of OpenAI’s Intelligence at Work event: Codex merges with ChatGPT, role-specific agent plugins become startup killers, and Sites turns vibe coding into hosted apps.
June 3rdA 27-minute breakdown of why Opus 4.8 barely moved the needle and why Codex platform updates mattered far more.
May 31stA 16-minute breakdown of why AI browsers lost before they launched and how Codex and Claude Code absorbed the browser entirely.
May 28thClaude, Codex, Google, and Cursor are all racing to build the same thing — and only two of them know what they are building.
May 23rdA 50-minute live walkthrough of the 8 Codex skills Riley Brown uses daily to run his entire content and marketing operation.
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