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Agentic Affairs

Agentic Affairs

Agentic Affairs is your daily briefing on the agentic AI era — breaking news, sharp analysis, and plain-English explainers on AI agents, coding agents, frontier models, and the infrastructure powering them.

From launch-day coverage to deep dives on memory, orchestration, and agent security, our newsroom tracks the systems that act — not just chat — so you can keep up with autonomous software as it happens.

Start with the latest stories below, or browse our explainers for the essential concepts behind agentic AI.

Latest News

A smartwatch glowing on a wrist in a dark restaurant as diners talk in the background.

Your Watch Just Remembered What You Said. Did the Room Agree?

Cartoon robot asking versus a worker acting: ASK VS ACT, illustrating that the model requests a tool and application code executes it

How AI Agents Use Tool Calling and Function Execution

A glowing platform condensing streams of conversation light into summary orbs, illustrating Apple Watch AI recaps

Apple Watch AI recaps enter beta: Live Rewind and Siri Recaps explained

Cartoon robot agent inspecting a cracked stepping stone with a magnifying glass

How AI Agents Handle Errors and Exceptions

Stacks of newspapers dissolving into streams of data flowing into a laptop

The Browser in the Middle: Publishers Sue Brave Over the Index Feeding AI

A small black TV set-top box glowing faintly beneath a television in a dark living room at night

Your TV Box Was Rented Out: Inside the 1.3 Million-Device Botnet Google Says a Partner Built

A large data centre campus at dusk under a storm sky, with high-voltage transmission pylons and power lines

OpenAI’s New Grid Protectors: A 1,000-Megawatt Promise Inside a 3,200-Megawatt Campus

Open supermarket freezer aisle at night, frosted doors and an empty shopping cart

When the Freezers Went Warm: Did a Maintenance Connection Expose Europe’s Cold Chain?

Symbolic scene of glowing memory chips flowing from idle desktop computers into a large shared data-center platform

Sam Altman Says Your PC’s RAM Is a Terrible Use of Scarce DRAM

Hooded figure holding a newspaper before a glowing browser window stacked with newspaper bundles

Burglar, Fence, Browser: The Times Takes Its AI Fight to Brave

A smartwatch glowing on a wrist in a dark restaurant as diners talk in the background.

Your Watch Just Remembered What You Said. Did the Room Agree?

Cartoon robot asking versus a worker acting: ASK VS ACT, illustrating that the model requests a tool and application code executes it

How AI Agents Use Tool Calling and Function Execution

A glowing platform condensing streams of conversation light into summary orbs, illustrating Apple Watch AI recaps

Apple Watch AI recaps enter beta: Live Rewind and Siri Recaps explained

Cartoon robot agent inspecting a cracked stepping stone with a magnifying glass

How AI Agents Handle Errors and Exceptions

Stacks of newspapers dissolving into streams of data flowing into a laptop

The Browser in the Middle: Publishers Sue Brave Over the Index Feeding AI

A small black TV set-top box glowing faintly beneath a television in a dark living room at night

Your TV Box Was Rented Out: Inside the 1.3 Million-Device Botnet Google Says a Partner Built

A large data centre campus at dusk under a storm sky, with high-voltage transmission pylons and power lines

OpenAI’s New Grid Protectors: A 1,000-Megawatt Promise Inside a 3,200-Megawatt Campus

Open supermarket freezer aisle at night, frosted doors and an empty shopping cart

When the Freezers Went Warm: Did a Maintenance Connection Expose Europe’s Cold Chain?

Symbolic scene of glowing memory chips flowing from idle desktop computers into a large shared data-center platform

Sam Altman Says Your PC’s RAM Is a Terrible Use of Scarce DRAM

Hooded figure holding a newspaper before a glowing browser window stacked with newspaper bundles

Burglar, Fence, Browser: The Times Takes Its AI Fight to Brave

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