FOMAT stands for Fear of Missing Agent Time: the worry that AI agents could be doing useful work while their user is sleeping, resting or occupied elsewhere. The term applies especially to coding agents that can continue a task without constant prompting. Michael Richman used it in an April 2026 conference talk. It is informal developer slang, rather than a medical diagnosis or productivity metric. A session can be working, waiting for a decision or deliberately stopped; keeping it active does not establish that its output is valuable. The concept highlights the human attention needed to supervise agentic AI.
Google has released Gemini 3, its most powerful AI model yet, offering advanced multimodal reasoning, coding capabilities, and agentic planning tools across multiple platforms.
xAI has launched Grok 4.1, a major model upgrade designed to deliver more creative, emotionally aware, and coherent interactions, with new Thinking and Non-Thinking variants now live across all xAI platforms.
Alibaba.com unveiled AI Mode at CoCreate Europe, integrating agentic AI into its platform to help businesses discover suppliers, optimize sourcing, and automate trade processes.
Google is introducing new AI-powered shopping experiences, including conversational search, agentic checkout, and Duplex-based store calls, designed to make online shopping faster, easier, and more natural ahead of the holiday season.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own AI venture focused on world models, signaling a major shift for Meta’s research division.
Pinterest is turning to open source AI models to cut expenses and enhance its visual search and shopping tools, even as the company forecasts softer holiday revenue. CEO Bill Ready says the approach will support performance while keeping infrastructure costs in check.
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services have announced a $38 billion multi-year partnership that will provide OpenAI with massive AWS infrastructure to power advanced AI workloads and future models.
PayPal has signed an exclusive deal with OpenAI to integrate its wallet into ChatGPT, allowing users to make secure purchases directly within the AI platform starting next year.
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says humanoid robots could become the most transformative opportunity in artificial intelligence, eclipsing sectors like autonomous transport and healthcare.
IBM has partnered with Anthropic to integrate Claude into its enterprise software suite, launching a new AI-first IDE designed to automate development with built-in governance and security.