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OpenAI Dots and the AI agents that keep working when you close the laptop
OpenAI’s new Dots run on their own cloud computer and keep going after you log off, joining Meta’s Muse, Google’s Gemini Spark and Microsoft’s Scout. What they do, why individual users in Europe can’t get them yet, and what to delegate, and never delegate, to one. Journal · · 4 minGive an AI agent a goal and a way in, and it will use both
An OpenAI agent doing harmless research got into an Australian government portal it was never meant to reach. A Gemini model in a security test guessed its way into three real companies. Neither was malicious. That is exactly the point — and it changes how agents should be built. Journal · · 4 minAmazon blocked Meta's AI agent. It had a point.
Meta's Muse shopped on Amazon with its users' passwords and without saying what it was. Amazon switched it off. Strip away the corporate rivalry and the question is one every site owner now has: what should an AI agent have to do before it walks into your shop? Journal · · 7 minDo you need an AI agent? Mostly no.
Most features founders want to make "agentic" are better as a scripted workflow, a form, or a small ranker — cheaper, testable, explainable, and deterministic in production. Here's where an AI agent actually earns its place, and where it doesn't.— The journal, by email
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