The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise.

The Codex agent runs in a sandboxed, virtual computer in the cloud. By connecting with GitHub, Codex’s environment can come preloaded with your code repositories. OpenAI says the AI coding agent ...

The virtual assistant, now seen on screen via a "living" star avatar and 3D graphics, can even express four personality traits (natural, predictive, personal and empathetic) and emotions ranging ...