Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code

Anthropic, a smaller rival started by OpenAI defectors, has found runaway success with its programming agent, Claude Code.
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GitHub Copilot unlocks OpenAI's GPT-5.4 in VSCode and more

GitHub Copilot has added OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 coding model, bringing improvements to reasoning and multi step development tasks.

OpenAI Is Reportedly Developing a Code Hosting Platform to Take on Microsoft’s GitHub

OpenAI reportedly made the decision due to recent GitHub outages The project will reportedly not be complete for months OpenAI is said to want to make the product available to its customers ...