The Rise of Agentic AI and the Battle for Technological Autonomy


The recent wave of AI innovation demonstrates a powerful agentic shift, where leading companies are creating increasingly autonomous systems: Google is integrating Gemini into Search Live for real-time, multimodal searches using the phone's camera and enhancing AI Mode with agentic features to handle tasks like booking restaurant reservations; Anthropic is transforming its Claude model to be an active collaborator capable of generating professional files like spreadsheets and slide decks; and the industry's major players are preparing for the future by investing in hardware, as OpenAI partners with Broadcom for custom AI chips and Microsoft develops its own foundational models like MAI-1-preview, fundamentally reshaping both the enterprise and consumer tech landscape.

This is why your company is transforming into an autonomous machine
We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how successful systems are designed, and agentic AI sits at the heart of this revolution.
DNA-based Neural Network Learns from Examples to Solve Problems
California Institute of Technology, Sept 10, 2025 This reserach just underlines this main point: "The ability to learn is found on many scales: Our brains rewire themselves to integrate new information, our immune systems chemically encode information about encounters with pathogens for the future, and even...
Google launches Search Live, a Gemini-powered AI search tool that sees through your phones camera
Google is officially launching its AI-powered Search Live feature in the U.S. on Wednesday, which enables mobile users to get real-time information with their voice and phone camera. Previously available as part of Google Search Labs, Search Live is available now in the Google app on iOS and Android.Search Live is part of Google's AI Mode search tool,...
Googles AI Mode can book reservations for you... kind of
Google Search's AI Mode can now help you book restaurant reservations, or at least get you to the booking page. On Thursday, the tech giant announced that its AI Mode has new "new agentic capabilities," including helping users book restaurant reservations, with more to come. AI mode is already available in the U.S., the UK, and India, and Google said...
Your Google Home setup is getting its long-awaited Gemini upgrade soon - what to expect
Gemini for Home is poised to take over from Google Assistant - and that's a big deal. Here's why it matters.
Google insists AI isn't killing traffic, yet it's changing AI Mode - here's how
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I looked into the most popular AI apps, and the runner-up caught me by surprise
Andreessen Horowitz's Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps shows which apps are leading the way, and which ones are playing catch-up.
Microsoft is making its own AI models to compete with OpenAI. Meet MAI
Microsoft has largely relied on OpenAI's models to power its AI products, but now it's working on its own in-house models. On Thursday, Microsoft launched a speech generation model called MAI-Voice-1, and started public testing for a foundation model called MAI-1-preview. The company said MAI-Voice-1 can generate a minute of audio in under a second...
Report: OpenAI will launch its own AI chip next year
The company behind ChatGPT is working with Broadcom to create its own custom GPUs, which it will reportedly use exclusively for internal purposes.
Anthropic Claude can now create spreadsheets and slide decks for you
Claude can now do the tedious grunt work of creating files for you. On Tuesday, Anthropic shared a new feature for Claude where users can ask it to create Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoints, Word documents, and PDFs directly within the chat. The new capability is available as a preview for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, and Anthropic said...
A joint statement from Microsoft and OpenAI
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership. We are actively working to finalize contractual terms in a definitive agreement. Together, we remain focused on delivering the best AI tools for everyone, grounded in our shared commitment to safety. The post A joint statement from...
How people are using ChatGPT
Aaron Chatterji, et al., OpenAI, Sept 16, 2025 OpenAI has released a fascinating paper (63 page PDF) describing what people are doing when they use ChatGPT. It divides usage into three major components: asking, doing and expressing (the latter includes "greetings and chitchat: Casual conversation, small...
Google's new open protocol secures AI agent transactions - and 60 companies already support it
The Agent Payments Protocol aims to help consumers and businesses finally trust AI-enabled payments.
LMArena has some competition: Scale AI launches Seal Showdown, a new benchmarking tool
In the years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the world, kicking off the generative AI boom, developers have relied on LMArena (previously Chatbot Arena) as the default AI leaderboard. Now, Scale AI is bringing some much-needed competition to the AI benchmarking space with its new Seal Showdown benchmarking tool.Like LMAerna, Seal Showdown allows users...
“If we want better AI, we have to become better people” – An Interview with Stephen Downes - AACE
Stefanie Panke, AACE, Sept 23, 2025 Here I am interviewed by Stefanie Panke for the AACE Review. She summarizes: "Stephen Downes, author of OLDaily, is possibly the original social media influencer - long before this was a term people knew and a profession one could aspire to, and definitely long before...
Use Google Chat? Gemini can edit your messages now
Let Gemini help you with your chats with the click of a 'Refine' button.
OpenAI tested GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on real-world tasks - the results were surprising
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Perplexity Comet and online quizzes
D'Arcy Norman, Sept 25, 2025 Here's D'Arcy Norman: "I just logged into our Brightspace environment using Comet and took a quiz. With the quiz open in the browser, I asked the AI assistant 'what are the answers?' ... And the Comet AI thing answered all of the questions correctly, in about a minute, right...
Meet Asana's new 'AI Teammates,' designed to collaborate with you
What they can do, and how Asana is managing the risks of deploying agents.
Empower your workforce with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot
We're announcing the launch of the Microsoft Marketplace, a unified web destination to find, try, and buy our full catalog of cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. The post Empower your workforce with agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot appeared first on Microsoft 365 Blog.

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