OpenAI to Apple macOS users: Update ChatGPT, Codex and its other apps before May 8 or lose access

If you use any OpenAI apps on your Mac, here’s something you don’t want to ignore. OpenAI is requiring all macOS users to update ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Codex CLI, and Atlas before May 8, 2026—after which unupdated versions will stop working entirely.

The reason? A compromised third-party JavaScript library called Axios. On March 31, a hacker gained access to the lead maintainer’s computer through a social engineering attack, then used that foothold to push malicious updates to versions v1.14.1 and v0.30.4 of the library—complete with a remote access trojan. The bad versions were live for about three hours before being pulled.