OpenAI executives call a rival's success a wake-up call

Claim

OpenAI's top executives are refocusing the company around coding and business users, with its CEO of applications telling staff that Anthropic's success should serve as a wake-up call, as Codex reached 2 million weekly users, up nearly fourfold since January.

Reported metric: 2M weekly users

Reporting date: 2026-03-17 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to March 17, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)