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.
Arthur Hayes wants FLOP to anchor a global market for AI compute, with futures for hedging and speculation. The network and token remain in development.
GPT-6.1 Terra targets visual reasoning and computer use at half Sol’s standard API rates, with access through ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
Cathedral says AI agents helped researchers access Anthropic’s internal data in under 12 hours. Anthropic says Claude chats, code and model weights were unaffected.
Oracle’s AI Success Navigator adds six specialized agents and a reusable setup registry to help businesses configure, test and modernize Fusion Cloud Applications.
OpenAI resumed frontier AI training on October 1 after an 11-day pause, strengthening safeguards and blocking live internet access after a containment failure.
Elon Musk says he trusts Grok Bot with his finances. SpaceX reports 800,000 paid weekly users as the agent expands into purchases and account access.
Microsoft’s MAI-DxO scored 83.2% on complex cases versus 36.1% for generalist doctors in simulations. Budget settings cut estimated workup costs.
OpenAI’s Decisions API uses GPT-6 Luna for structured choices, with input starting at $0.10 per million tokens and a claimed speedup of up to 10x.
Pepsipu’s ns2jb project used Codex and live console controls in a two-week research effort, but the tethered jailbreak is not finished custom firmware.
The company-wide rollout takes OpenAI’s workplace agent beyond a small pilot, bringing AI-assisted tasks to teams across Uber.