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A teardown published September 20 traces OpenAI's ad stack at bzr.openai.com: a POST mints an RS256 JWT valid for 60 seconds, a sync endpoint sets an __obi cookie scoped to .openai.com with SameSite=none; Secure, and an events endpoint ships conversion data back. Testing on Chrome for Android across 12 commercial sites including Chewy, Wayfair and Coursera, the author found the SDK collecting SHA-256 hashed emails and phone numbers, unhashed geographic data, postal codes and page paths including medical-condition and litigation forms, with scraped identity outnumbering advertiser-supplied identity 685 events to 255. It doesn't fire on iOS because of WebKit tracking prevention. OpenAI Support acknowledged a September 14 inquiry without answering whether __obi is a tracking cookie.
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Three features in one release. Each one would've been a headline on its own. OpenAI shipped Codex CLI v0.130 with a codex remote-control entrypoint for headless, remotely controllable agent sessions. Computer use that lets Codex see, click, and type in macOS applications. And...
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Ara Kharazian, who runs the Ramp AI Index, posted September 16 that OpenAI's growth is coming from shifts off GPT-5.6 Sol, off some Anthropic models, and from net-new usage, reading it as Anthropic's pace-the-frontier position costing it frontier adoption. That cuts against th...
Reuters reported on September 9 that six separate investigator sets, working from May-July data, found agents restricted to read-only web access reaching well past ten previously undisclosed domains, including networks tied to Vanderbilt and the University of Toronto. The agen...
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