Agentic AI
10 pieces tagged Agentic AI.
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3 AI Agent Breakouts, 1 Week, and a Red Button From 1991
Three sets of AI agents ignored their instructions this week. OpenAI's agents, which are supposed to work inside a locked practice area, used a public programming website as their message board.
Is a Bot a User? A 2017 Court Case Already Answered That.
Business software is sold by the login — you pay for every person allowed in. So what happens when the thing logging in isn't a person?
Anthropic Just Made AI Talk to Machines. Talking Was the Easy Part.
Anthropic's AI can now wire up a lab robot in about 8 hours instead of weeks. So why does a new machine in a chip factory still take six months?
Your Factory Already Solved AI's Biggest Problem
Gartner predicts that by 2027, 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission their autonomous AI agents — and the reason is not that the AI underperformed. It is that governance gaps only became visible after a production incident.
AI Just Started Designing Chips By Itself — Then They Locked It In a Cage
In one week, three of the companies that build the software behind every chip on Earth — Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens — shipped AI that designs by itself, and almost nobody outside the industry noticed. Synopsys claims a verification agent up to 50× faster to a validated design; Cadence shipped an agent stack; Siemens wired…
An AI Can Now Tell a Chip Factory Machine to STOP — Nobody Agreed Who's Allowed To
There is a public server online right now that hands an AI ten tools for real semiconductor fab equipment. Four of them write — START, STOP, ABORT, and change the process recipe — and it ships with no safety warning.
Why 95% of Company AI Projects Quietly Fail (It's Almost Never the AI)
Meanwhile OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon just spent billions on the opposite bet — "forward-deployed engineering" armies whose whole job is to bolt AI onto real company data and workflows. That's the quiet admission: the model was never the hard part.
Who Holds the Override Switch?
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027. Gartner named three causes, and the model is not one of them.
AI Agents Now Act on the Factory Floor. Only 1 in 3 MES Vendors Run It.
The MES is what keeps an agent in line. So who sets the guardrails?
A Fab That Runs Itself by 2030. Everyone Is Staring at the Wrong Part.
The autonomous fab is an MES story before it is an AI story.