OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon - […]
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
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- · WiredOpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
- · TechCrunchHere’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
- · CNBCOpenAI follows Meta into the red-hot market for personal agents. But will users pay?
- · TechCrunchRestate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
- · TechCrunchOpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
- · TechCrunchBrian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system
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