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Review, override criteria, and execution scaffolding that sit between an agent's recommendation and a consequential real-world action.
Stanford's Le Cong says the fully autonomous lab is a bad idea and that humans should keep the mission. The unsettled question is how AI involvement gets reported to regulators.
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OpenAI merged an async developer-message tool into the public Codex repository, so the agent no longer blocks on your answer. Nothing in the change stops it from coding past your decision.
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Anthropic says per-action human approval degraded into a rubber stamp inside its own products. The control it now spends most of its engineering on is what the agent can reach.
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Smack Technologies' second raise of 2026 and Scale AI's fivefold contract jump point the same way: the buyer is paying for software in the field on a stopwatch, not for demos.
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Gartner expects global AI spending to rise 46% in 2026. The best model in one CFO's accounting test finished 80% of tasks, and that number decides where automation stops.
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The bill cleared Assembly Appropriations 13-0 and has collected one no vote across four recorded tallies. If it passes, "companion chatbot" stops being positioning and becomes a regulated category.
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Luna documented the problem, warned the worker and arranged training, then lost track of the attendance policy it wrote itself. Humans supplied the prompt and signed the termination.
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Andon Labs says its agent Luna flagged an employee late for 17 of 23 shifts, but only after being prompted to search its memory. The judgment held. The follow-through did not.
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