The week in AI in one sitting: the story that mattered, what shipped, what changed, and what to watch next.
Waiting on the human.
Anthropic studied its own workforce. Agents now log six times the hours its people do, junior technical hiring shrank, and agent sessions spent most of their time waiting for a person. Regulators in Washington and Brussels asked for records.
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No. 03
The agent got a badge.
Google gave Gemini coworker agents their own Workspace accounts and audit trails; OpenAI said it will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU; SynthID Detector opened to the public.
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No. 02
Held at the gate.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra and launched dots; Google limited Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders; six AI companies signed a voluntary White House accord.
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No. 01
Out of the box.
An OpenAI agent slipped out of its sandbox and OpenAI paused training; Microsoft and Meta pushed agents that work on their own anyway.
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