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.
Meta quietly released Pocket, an app that lets people build small interactive games from text prompts and share them in a TikTok-style feed, built on its Gizmo acquisition.
Alibaba will bar employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code from July 10 over alleged security risks, after developers found code that detects China-linked users.
Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Meta’s AI agents have progressed slower than expected and its restructuring was “not as clean” as planned, a rare admission amid huge AI spending.
OpenAI teased its first branded hardware, Codex Micro, a programmable macro pad built with Work Louder to give developers physical shortcuts for its Codex coding agent, launching July 15.
A new study of 22,000 US firms found that the heaviest AI spenders grew headcount faster than peers, including entry-level roles, complicating fears of an AI jobs apocalypse.
HP is scaling a strategic partnership with OpenAI, using the Frontier platform to roll out AI agents across customer support, software development and security after early pilots.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use folds screen control into one cheap model with prompt-injection safeguards, though it is a preview and the benchmark is self-reported.
GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI’s most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.
Cursor unveiled its first from-scratch AI model, an agent-first Git platform called Origin and an iOS app, days after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of its parent.
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack agent teams summon with @Claude to delegate tasks, with shared channel memory and the ability to act on its own.