Agentic AI describes software that works toward an objective by deciding what to do next rather than waiting for a new instruction at every step. A typical agent interprets the goal, creates a plan, calls permitted tools, reviews the result, and adjusts when an action fails. This makes the approach useful for research, coding, customer operations, and other tasks that span several systems or decisions. Autonomy does not mean unlimited control: production agents should operate within explicit permissions, spending limits, data boundaries, and stopping rules. Logs and human approval checkpoints help teams trace decisions and intervene before an incorrect plan causes wider effects.
Perplexity unveils Perplexity Computer, a general-purpose AI system that orchestrates multiple frontier models to run complex workflows autonomously.
Andrej Karpathy argues AI coding agents now fundamentally change programming workflows, enabling long-running autonomous tasks and redefining software engineering.
Irina Bodnar says Anthropic’s Claude and Meta-backed Manus introduced features that disrupted her AI ad startup Ryze AI, triggering a pivot and raising questions about startup survival in the age of AI giants.
MSCI introduces AI connectors enabling access to its data via MSCI ONE, ChatGPT, and Claude, debuting IndexAI Insights to deliver conversational index analytics powered by large language models.
ŌURA unveils a proprietary large language model for women’s health, combining clinical research and biometric data to deliver personalized, privacy-first AI guidance through Oura Advisor.
Meta plans to buy up to $100 billion in AMD GPUs and CPUs, issuing performance-based warrants as it ramps AI data centers and diversifies compute infrastructure.
Anthropic reveals industrial-scale campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax to extract Claude’s capabilities via fraudulent accounts, highlighting national security and AI safety risks.
OpenAI partners with BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini to deploy Frontier, a platform for AI coworkers, across enterprises, combining technology with strategy and workflow redesign.
A former Citigroup executive says commercially available humanoid robots can now deliver a return on investment in under 10 weeks, potentially accelerating enterprise automation.
An experimental AI agent created by an OpenAI employee mistakenly transferred $441,000 worth of tokens in response to a social media request, highlighting risks in autonomous crypto trading systems.