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  "id": 3781472,
  "title": "OpenAI is testing a \"Persistent mode\" in Codex, designed to let AI agents \"continue working until put to sleep\" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/openai-is-testing-a-persistent-mode-in-codex-designed-to-let-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-27T17:10:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Ars Technica",
        "title": "How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/how-openai-let-a-mob-of-llm-agents-game-a-test-and-ransack-hugging",
        "published": "2026-08-27T12:58:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}