--- title: Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230... description: OpenAI has launched the Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keyboard co-designed with Work Louder, intended as a physical command center for managing AI coding agents... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amid-hardware-legal-battle-openai-releases-a-230-keyboard-for-codex-mvzhepg6p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI has launched the Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keyboard co-designed with Work Louder, intended as a physical command center for managing AI coding agents... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amid-hardware-legal-battle-openai-releases-a-230-keyboard-for-codex-mvzhepg6p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MvZhePg6p.png og:image:alt: Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI has launched the Codex Micro, a $230 light-up keyboard co-designed with Work Louder, intended as a physical command center for managing AI coding agents via Codex. The device features Agent Keys showing agent status, customizable Command Keys, a joystick for workflows, and a dial to adjust agent reasoning levels. OpenAI describes it as a limited-run collaboration, suggesting it's more of a novelty than a mass-market product. Separately, Bloomberg reported on a more serious unreleased OpenAI hardware device — a portable, screenless smart speaker with moving parts still in development. Both hardware efforts are shadowed by an Apple lawsuit alleging OpenAI's senior leadership deliberately extracted Apple's confidential hardware trade secrets to develop its own devices. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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