AI Round-up: May 22, 2026

OpenAI's Codex Thursday updates centred the snapshot, with OpenAI Devs showing Codex controlling apps on a locked Mac from the phone and OpenAI following with a launch thread on the same workflow plus annotation mode. The wider coding-agent market moved in parallel: xAI brought Grok subscriptions into OpenCode, Replit opened self-serve Enterprise, Together highlighted Qwen3.7-Max for long-horizon agentic coding, and Reddit kept arguing over Codex and Claude Code in production workflows.

Runway supplied the clearest creative launch with Aleph 2.0 and Edit Studio, backed by a high-reach X post and a customer story on Coca-Cola ad production. Microsoft filled the enterprise-agent lane with Fara1.5 computer-use research, agent governance guidance, Copilot customer deployments and security updates, while Anthropic conversation was driven more by community uptake: free AI courses, Claude Code workflow videos, Karpathy-to-Anthropic discussion and reports about Claude Code licence costs.