There are eight built-in pets to choose from, but if you’re feeling adventurous, you can also create (and share) your own by ...

Stuart Ford's AGC Studios is launching world sales ahead of the Cannes market on AI-produced family animation Critterz.

OpenAI has introduced Codex Pets, optional animated companions for its Codex desktop app that sit on your screen and track what the coding agent is doing in real time.

Credit: Photographed by Joseph Maldonado / Mashable Composite by Rene Ramos AI companions are quietly becoming a staple ...

OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These "optional animated companions" don't do any coding themselves, but serve as a floating overlay that ...

Explore the features of the ChatGPT 5.5 Codex super app, from debugging code to automating browser tasks and integrating with ...

Solopreneurs are finding ways to use AI tools to manage their businesses. Vibe coding tools like Base44 are used by founders to create their own apps. There are some good reasons why founders should ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tejal Rives, 35, who lives in Arizona. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In October 2025, I read a news article that Amazon ...

Apple has reportedly blocked updates for AI “vibe coding” apps like Replit and Vibecode, citing violations of App Store rules regarding self-modifying code. To gain approval, these apps may need to ...

When Jeremy Spears set out to direct an animated short film with longtime friend Nathan Engelhardt, the co-directors thought it would take them about a year — not six — to make their Oscar-nominated ...

The recently compromised update mechanism for the popular open source text editor Notepad ++ has been hardened so it’s now ‘effectively unexploitable’, says the application’s author. Don Ho made the ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...