NEW ChatGPT 5.6 & Codex Update artwork

NEW ChatGPT 5.6 & Codex Update

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

July 12, 2026

The script tests Codex rebranded as ChatGPT using GPT 5.6, showing how to switch between speed/effort settings and run multiple tasks.
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
So today, we're going to be testing our Gpt 5.6 plus Codex to see how it goes. If you're not sure what Codex, I mean, it's rebranded to ChatGPT, first of all, so it doesn't seem to be called Codex anymore. It is called ChatGPT. And then you can see over here, we have, so we can switch between the different settings. We can go from faster to smarter over here, and then we can get started with building with this. So if you're not familiar with Codex or ChatGPT, as it's now called, then you can see an example over here. So for example, if we wanted to start a new project from scratch, we can go to new task, click on new project, start from scratch, start building out with this. So example project. And then what I'm actually going to do over here is just have a look with Claude and see, okay, what can I build today that would actually be used for? So I'm going to say, okay. And in the meantime, whilst he's doing that, I'm just going to try this inside ChatGPT. So we'll say, create a new website for the AI Profit boardroom community. And actually what I'm going to do is go over to sites over here. Then we're going to click on create.
And from here, we're going to plug in the details. So they actually have like a separate section just for creating websites over here, which we'll try right now. And then we can just hit enter, like so inside ChatGPT. And I'll just give it some information that it can use from my existing website so that it can create a better version now.
Example of this existing version now, attached, and then I'm also going to increase the effort here just to get better outputs from this. So we're going to try SolExtraHigh and try this out. So you can see it's now working as a task.
And we can also pin that so we can have it for later. So we can save that for later, as you can see.
So it's pinned right at the top. It's like, what I've noticed is inside Codex, it's a little bit hard to navigate between them all and that sort of thing. So in the meantime, let's see what else we could do here. So we actually created out this habit tracker website as well. And we can open that up in ChatGPT or inside Chrome, whatever you want. So let's have a look at this inside Chrome. See what it's like.
Pretty nice design, isn't it? Let's check out how she works. Read for 20 minutes. Yeah, as she works, isn't it? So, I mean, you're at the point now where you can basically build whatever you want using the system, super easy to do.
You just type it in one step at a time. So we can build apps, tools, games. Let's see what we've got over here as recommended builds. So daily automation builder tracker.
Let's try that one. So we're going to go back into Codex. We've already created a website. We've got another website being built over here. One other thing that I would like to test out is computer use. So if you're not familiar with this, basically you can type our computer, you can get Codex to control your computer in the background, type and that sort of thing. So if we go inside here, and we're like, right, computer use, check out, and I'll give you a link to Skool, see if it can navigate our free Skool group. Check out Skool and post a link, or post a new post about how to use Codex with Gpt 5.6, plus what you can do with it. Let's see if it can actually do that.
So we can trigger computer use, which means that Codex can start using computer use, start using our computer, start posting with it, and you can see the preview over here. Now, if you actually want to have a look and open up, you can just click on that. Let's see how it performs. I think that can just work in the background there. So you can see what it's doing as a preview over here. Then if we go back over to Skool, you can see that it's now started typing. So my cursor is moving side to side here, but you can see ChatGPT's cursor is navigating the page directly. So it can work in the background. Seems pretty good for computer use. And it does seem a little bit slow here. And it says like posting publicly on your behalf as Julian, should I publish now? I'm going to say yes. We'll see if that actually works. So it says I'm entering the finished copy and publishing now. Doesn't seem to be typing anything, but let's see. So it's planning it step by step. I mean, to be fair, for a post like this, it's super slow, but I guess you could just schedule the task in for later, using the scheduled tasks. And then you don't even need to be at the computer to do it. Like it's just running in the background and doing this for you. Now it's typing it in. I think we can see the preview over here. So it's added the title and the post itself. And then it's clicking post. This is very weird. Can it actually do it? Now, if we have a look on the right hand side, we've got the pet and we can see the different things it's working on. So it completed that task perfectly.

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