GPT-5-Codex and the Year of Agentic Coding

The AI Daily Brief discusses Gemini topping the App Store due to the popularity of its Nano Banana image model and Google's rising valuation, alongside Google's defense of AI overviews in search. It also covers ElevenLabs' new managed service, ElevenLabs Productions, offering AI-generated dubbing and transcriptions with human oversight, and Fiverr's layoffs as it shifts back to startup mode amidst AI disruption. The episode then focuses on OpenAI's release of GPT-5 Codex, optimized for agentic coding, highlighting its variable thinking capabilities, autonomy in complex tasks, and potential for code review, with early reviews indicating significant improvements in coding efficiency and performance.