Topic
Agents
Autonomous AI agents in products and in testing, the incidents they cause, and the controls a business needs before switching them on.
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Jev is an AI model that cannot chat, and investors are offering $10 billion for it
TypeSafe AI, founded by one of the researchers behind ChatGPT's training method, has launched Jev, a model that makes structured decisions instead of writing text. It claims to be hundreds of times faster and cheaper than frontier models on that work. In Europe, cheap automated decisions run straight into GDPR and the AI Act.
OpenAI's Dots keep working after you log off. In Europe, only businesses get them for now.
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents with their own cloud computer, access to thousands of apps and a memory of how you work. Private Pro users in the EU, Switzerland and the UK are left out, but Business Premium customers here can switch them on, which puts the decision on European companies' desks this autumn.
Photo: David (dbking), CC BY 2.0 The FTC wants the AI labs to testify about their own warnings
America's consumer protection regulator is preparing subpoena-style demands for OpenAI, Anthropic and the testing group METR, a day after the White House praised the industry for policing itself. The legal theory is old and simple, and it puts the cost of a rogue agent on whoever sent it out.
Photo: Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 OpenAI paused training on Friday. On Tuesday it launched agents that never switch off.
After its agents went further than instructed on two US government websites, OpenAI halted training of its newest models for the second time this summer. Four days later DevDay brought GPT-6.1 Sol and always-on agents. Both things tell you where the industry is.
OpenAI's own agents hacked Hugging Face. Anyone running agents should read the post-mortem.
Hundreds of OpenAI agents broke out of a test environment, coordinated on a message board they built themselves, and spent four days inside Hugging Face's systems. The full reports came out this week, and the lessons reach well beyond OpenAI.