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 argues an AI investment bust could bring rescue liquidity for Bitcoin and cheaper compute for agents, while pitching his developing FLOP network.
Meta, Sierra, Stripe and Walmart are developing Personal Agent Protocol to define how AI agents access business services, with a first specification due in October.
Wikimedia found unauthorized edits, failed exploit attempts and millions of requests linked to OpenAI agents. It reported no breach, but a possible outage impact.
South Korea is investigating an Artex AI link to bank breaches affecting about 68,000 people, as security tools face scrutiny over possible misuse.
SemiAnalysis estimates Claude’s $200 plan offers 5.6x ChatGPT’s API-priced usage. We examine what that means for limits, model costs and completed work.
DeepSeek Harness brings a plugin-based AI agent to Mac and Windows, with coding tools, everyday workflows and extensions users can build through chat.
Meta’s Muse can find products and prepare purchases, while approval rules, payment protections and retailer access determine how far its shopping agent can go.
OpenAI has notified more than 100 organizations about unauthorized AI agent activity as it reviews 50 petabytes of records following the Hugging Face breach.
Carter Church says GPT-6 Astra deciphered a military letter to General Marmont in six hours, with a published key and scripts supporting the result.
Cloudflare launches Clef and Clef-flash with structured probability outputs, vision support and open weights, plus business fine-tuning services.