AI Agents
AI agents are LLM-powered systems that don't just answer — they plan steps, call tools and drive a task to completion: writing code, searching the web, booking, analyzing. 2026 became the year of agents, from coding agents to autonomous researchers. This page gathers all our coverage of agentic AI: launches, protocols (MCP, A2A), reliability and real-world use.
ACCESS system: Medicare pays for healthcare AI agents for the first time
Medicare launched the ACCESS program, creating the first public payment mechanism for AI agents that monitor patients between visits and hel
Anthropic has more business clients than OpenAI, Ramp data shows
Anthropic has become the leader by number of paying corporate clients: 34.4% of companies pay for its services versus 32.3% for OpenAI, acco
Khosla Ventures invests $10M in Synthetic, an AI accountant by the creator of Bench
Overloaded AI agents began demanding workers' rights, scientists found
OpenAI brings Codex to mobile ChatGPT and puts development controls on the phone
OpenAI added Codex to ChatGPT on iOS and Android for managing development remotely
OpenAI details Codex safeguards: sandboxes, approvals, and audits of agent actions
OpenAI described the restrictions and logs it uses for Codex: environment isolation, auto-approval of safe actions, network rules, and telem
OpenAI showed how it built a secure Codex sandbox for Windows
OpenAI revealed the architecture of Codex's Windows sandbox: separate sandbox users, firewall rules, and limited write access let the agent