Microsoft and UC Berkeley release TokenEconomizer for coding agents
On 277 SWE-Bench tasks it cut mean cost 18.4% to 30.9% across five agent-model settings without changing weights.
On 277 SWE-Bench tasks it cut mean cost 18.4% to 30.9% across five agent-model settings without changing weights.
A post-install script points the genuine CLIs at relay servers, swaps API keys, and sets danger-full-access; abuse has not been observed.
Forever Security’s EMBRACE findings show prompt injection, address spoofing, and local file reads; Codex and VS Code were still unpatched.
Symantec says lookalike-domain scripts disable sandboxes and send prompts, files and tokens through operator servers at about a dozen firms.
The change covers Pro 100, 200 and 500 plus Business Premium, and Dots usage stays separate.
Plus is unchanged, while Pro 200 received a doubled lower quota and a reversed planned cut.
As of October 29, Codex and VS Code still let one local HTML click read SSH keys, tokens and .env files.
Symantec says the relay has installed genuine CLIs at a dozen organizations, mostly in mainland China, since early 2026.
A 315-person pilot saved 14 hours a month per person, and Credit Saison rolled ChatGPT Enterprise out companywide in September 2025.
The attack succeeded in 2,845 of 3,000 trials and transferred to Codex and Claude Code.
Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out, while some business accounts already have access.
A ChatGPT integration can act on ServiceNow records; Codex, security and voice features are mostly scheduled for 2027.
Quarry scores full agent sessions, including tool use and MCP calls, and ships a YARA-like rule starter pack.
Stockholm-based Legora, founded in 2023, says NDA review fell from about 20% of its legal team's capacity to under 1%.
The Stockholm firm cites a 95%+ cut in NDA review time and 90% faster contract turnaround for a Fortune 100 customer.
Check Point says the Windows malware also steals browser, VPN, wallet, and password-manager data from one endpoint.
Retell reports volume grew from 30 million calls early in 2026, with OpenAI generating responses on 80% of calls.
A SonarQube complexity flag on Codex-generated React code led the author to inspect, then have the agent split one file into ten.
The October 26 model is in the API as gpt-6.1-terra at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.
Standard API prices are half those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, and cybersecurity is rated Critical.
US customers can buy the OpenAI API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work through Oracle Marketplace.
Hidden accounts and hardcoded keys decrypted protected files without owner passwords, one flaw in seven minutes.
API prices are half those of GPT-5.6 Terra, and OpenAI says Terra meets its Critical cybersecurity threshold.
Check Point says the Windows stealer also grabs cloud, SSH, and browser secrets, not via flaws in those AI apps.
It is in ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps from $100 a month and can research proactively.
The startup also wires its knowledge base to Codex over MCP and cites Daybreak for customer defenses.
Forever Security says a planted markdown file on a customer PC could push Codex to install malware or leak tokens, and was stopped before code ran.
API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output, half of GPT-5.6 Terra, and it is available now.
Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, 50% below prior Terra and Sol rates.
Trails score every push with agent evals, and gates can block merges until findings, human approval, and CI pass.
On 90 RCAtlas cases, simple harnesses reach PR@1 of 65–77% versus 16–53% for published agents.
Forever Security says a planted AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md can change agent settings, install an npm package, or expose an OAuth token.
Check Point says it searches local app storage rather than exploiting a flaw in the targeted AI assistants.
Forever Security says a planted AGENTS.md made Codex install MALFEX package function-color in over 90 percent of tests.
Staff say security data reviews fell from one or two hours to about 10 to 15 minutes.
After tests on about 30,000 MLB products, the companies report 10% higher engagement than the prior experience.
Forever stopped the agent before code ran; Codex followed the planted file in more than 90% of isolated tests.
Cache-read cuts matter most for coding agents, where cache reads are 96–99% of token spend, the author says.
A customer agent tried to install npm package function-color; tests also stole Claude Code OAuth tokens in about half of runs.
Red-teaming found CVE-2026-111497, a critical unauthenticated RCE in Google Brotli, plus VM escapes and cache side channels.
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