OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI is acquiring Ona, a company that specializes in secure cloud execution and orchestration (technology for running and managing code in cloud environments safely). This acquisition will allow Codex (OpenAI's AI tool used by 5 million people weekly) to work on longer tasks that span hours or days by running in persistent cloud environments instead of being limited to a single device or session. The integration will let organizations deploy AI agents (autonomous programs that perform tasks) securely within their own cloud infrastructure while maintaining control over security, data access, and activity logging.