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.
Open-source AI agent OpenClaw released its largest update yet, simplifying installation and adding shared cloud sessions that let multiple people collaborate on one agent.
Bill Gates published a 6,000-word essay warning that the AI transition could be one of history’s most disruptive periods, urging new institutions and a plan before it’s too late.
Cursor launched Origin, a code-hosting platform built into its editor with GitHub sync, in early beta the same day GitHub suffered a major global outage.
Anthropic’s second risk report revealed an unreleased internal model more capable than Mythos 5, and raised its catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from “very low” to “low.”
Researchers found a flaw letting them extract the hidden reasoning of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini by replaying encrypted traces into weaker sibling models, exposing secrets and unsafe content.
Manus said it will soon resume operating as an independent company, confirming the unwind of Meta’s $2 billion purchase after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.
Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud browser designed for AI agents rather than humans, stripping out tabs and visuals to use up to seven times less memory than Chromium.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.
Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, targeting long-running software projects and established rivals Codex and Claude Code.
Alibaba has launched Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 1M context and aggressive API pricing.