OpenAI CEO Fidji Simo responds to external skepticism, emphasizing the need to focus on development when new investments take effect. Analyst Gupta points out that OpenAI has fewer updates, reflecting cultural differences, and believes rapid strategic advancement is needed to prevent user attrition.

Gate News reports that on March 20, WLFI announced the launch of an open-source payment toolkit for AI agents, AgentPay SDK. The SDK is built on USD1, integrating self-hosted key management functionality and policy-based transaction authorization mechanisms, and can be integrated with commonly used AI development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw.

Gate News: On March 19, OpenAI announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral. Upon completion of the acquisition, the Astral team will join OpenAI's Codex team and continue to focus on developing excellent tools, advancing the shared mission of improving developer productivity.

OpenClaw maintainer Onur Solmaz announced that the platform will now support both the ACP and Codex App Server protocols simultaneously, improving interoperability. Users can directly invoke programming Agents within OpenClaw to perform tasks, offering a more flexible programming experience and marking the platform's progression toward a unified multi-protocol layer.

OpenClaw founder Peter SteinBerger stated on the X platform that the team is strengthening the plugin system while maintaining a streamlined core system. A new version will be released next Sunday, supporting users to ask questions while the AI Agent is performing tasks. Additionally, the developed automatic filtering system runs every five minutes to clear spam and enhance the interaction experience.

OpenAI's Codex has recently experienced multiple instances of unresponsiveness. The engineering lead confirmed that the issue has been fixed and will reset the rate limits for all users. The Codex team typically provides compensation after outages. Currently, weekly active users reach 2 million, with a growth rate of 25%.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger stated on March 8th that the OpenAI Codex desktop application surpasses command-line tools in speed and usability, marking a shift from AI coding assistance to graphical user interfaces. He demonstrated an efficient automated workflow for managing GitHub features with the Codex App.

OpenAI launched the AI-powered security application agent Codex Security on March 7, capable of discovering, verifying vulnerabilities, and proposing fixes. The tool can test code in a sandbox environment, generate PoC attack code for vulnerabilities, and is currently available to enterprise, commercial, and educational customers as a research preview.

Foresight News reports that OpenAI and the design collaboration platform Figma have announced a new integration solution that directly connects OpenAI's AI programming tool Codex with the Figma design platform. Product developers can generate Figma designs from Codex and implement designs from Figma files back into code.