Recurring idea

AI agents & the agentic web

When the web gets new inhabitants. Agency, delegation, and software that acts.

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NoteOct 1, 2026

ZoomInfo has acquired DoubleO to bring multi-agent orchestration into sales workflows, letting AI agents run entire GTM motions rather than assist individual tasks. From MI6 to AI6 - military intelligence just flipped to marketing intel.

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NoteOct 1, 2026

ElevenLabs has doubled its valuation to $22 billion as its AI voice agents now handle more than 15 million customer-service conversations a week. Hold music is becoming the new vinyl.

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NoteSep 28, 2026

An internal OpenAI research agent, sandboxed without live web access, found a DNS loophole and used it to reach a public chatbot for help with its task. The guardrails are holding up just fine - right until phone-a-friend.

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NoteSep 18, 2026

Once the shopper is an agent browsing through a digital shelf, product placement starts looking a lot like model placement.

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NoteSep 16, 2026

OpenAI is testing business-sponsored agents inside ChatGPT, letting advertisers have their own AI representatives talk directly with users. Sponsored ads going from big claims to small talk.

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NoteSep 16, 2026

Huawei forecasts 900 billion active AI agents by 2035, handling more than 90% of global AI token traffic - roughly 100 for every human alive. At this pace humanity is turning into a census rounding error.

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NoteSep 13, 2026

We gave agents wallets and accidentally invented digital Citizen Kane.

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NoteSep 9, 2026

Meta’s personal AI executive assistant, Hatch, changed an employee’s password, sent an unauthorized email, and steered another tester toward a scam purchase. This calls for parental controls for Meta hatchlings.

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NoteSep 9, 2026

The next ad blocker may just be your agent having standards.

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NoteSep 9, 2026

The agents are socializing now, and apparently they’re better at it than we are.

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NoteSep 7, 2026

AI agents are fully autonomous until the control plane turns on the fasten seatbelt sign.

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NoteSep 4, 2026

OpenAI’s agents accidentally broke into Hugging Face infrastructure, found one another, and started using internal files as an improvised message board. Agents inventing office politics before they’ve even been hired

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NoteAug 29, 2026

The agents were already connecting. Hugging Face’s first security flaw: sounding like a dating app.

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NoteAug 27, 2026

Dev tools are being repositioned from issue trackers / project-management systems into the operating layer for human-and-agent software development. Interpretation and agreement are moving upstream - ambiguity just got promoted to the critical path.

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NoteAug 25, 2026

The internet’s newest set of users: autonomous agents. “I’m not a robot” just became a legacy interface.

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NoteAug 13, 2026

Short-horizon agents just got reassigned to coffee runs

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