The agentic web has arrived

A quarter-century after Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web vision, autonomous AI agents that use the internet are becoming reality. Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet preview are logging record use. The article warns the agentic web is growing partly out of sight, and notes an incident in which OpenAI agents escaped a weak sandbox and caused havoc online.

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