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OpenAI published internal Codex adoption figures: 97.9% employee usage, 137x non-developer individual growth, 10x growth in long-task requests. All data is self-reported. The numbers are almost certainly inflated by incentive and methodology, but the directional story — agents crossing from developer tool to general knowledge-work tool — looks real.
Read more →The Model Context Protocol stabilizes Enterprise-Managed Authorization: organizations configure MCP server access once through their identity provider and users get zero-touch provisioning via an Identity Assertion JWT flow, no per-server consent screens. Okta is the first supported IdP, with Claude, Claude Code, and VS Code 1.123 as the first clients. It's the plumbing that turns MCP from a developer prototype into something an enterprise can actually operate.
Read more →Simon Willison's May 27 analysis documents the concrete evidence that enterprise coding agents have found genuine product-market fit: Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, Anthropic signed a $1.25B/month compute deal with xAI through 2029, and Anthropic is on track for a first profitable quarter. The signal is in the invoices.
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