OpenAI's latest acquisition could see big changes on the way for its Codex coding assistant

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Ona, a cloud development environment provider formerly known as Gitpod, subject to regulatory approval. The move aims to integrate Ona's secure cloud execution infrastructure into the Codex coding assistant, enabling long-running agentic tasks. Additionally, OpenAI has updated Codex's quota rules, allowing users to defer quota resets for more flexible use, a change seen in the context of competition with Anthropic.