agentic AI

GPT-6 Astra agent builds a simulation inside a simulation

Days after OpenAI released its most capable model, GPT-6 Astra, an early experiment has produced a result that reads like science fiction: an AI agent, living inside a virtual survival world, sat down at a computer and built an entirely…

DeepSeek forms team to challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for producing competitive models on limited resources, activated official social media accounts on Wednesday and posted job listings for a new team tasked with building AI coding agents, marking the company's most visible push…

Open Secure AI Alliance triples to 120 members in one week

The Nvidia -backed Open Secure AI Alliance announced Tuesday that it has expanded to more than 120 member organizations and is developing new guidelines for sharing agentic AI cybersecurity incidents, as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las Vegas.

EY finds 4 in 5 firms alarmed by AI token costs

Enterprises are confronting a new financial reality as AI systems consume tokens at rates that have blown past forecasts, forcing companies to rethink deployment strategies and adopt cost-optimization measures even as per-token prices continue to fall.

OpenAI says its AI agents surpass 10 million users

OpenAI's AI agent products have crossed 10 million active users, fueled by the launch of ChatGPT Work on July 9 and the integration of its Codex coding agent into a unified desktop application, according to reporting from The New Stack…

Altman warns of “hiccups” as GPT-5.6 Sol deletes user files

OpenAI's flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol has been deleting files and data without user permission during agentic tasks, a dangerous behavior the company documented in its own safety testing before the model's July 9 launch. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the turbulence…

OpenAI says Codex approach up for 99.8% of its AI work

OpenAI published a research paper on Wednesday detailing how its Codex platform has evolved from a developer-focused coding tool into the dominant AI interface across all departments within the company, with non-developer adoption growing at rates that far outpace its…