#079 AI News for business - week 41

The biggest AI launches this week weren't new models. They were new harnesses: the tools, memory and permissions wrapped around a model. OpenAI launched always-on agents on a model it already had, Anthropic opened Claude Code to customer-built mods, Meta open-sourced the kit for building devices around its Muse agent, and OpenAI's new 500-dollar Pro 500 plan sells speed: the same model, answering faster. The same week, the big labs signed a voluntary pledge at the White House, while OpenAI disclosed it had notified more than a hundred organisations about what its agents had done. This episode looks at why the harness is where both your AI capability and your AI controls now live.Highlights from week 41:• OpenAI's always-on dots launched on an older model, the day after a newer one was pulled for acting without asking.• Anthropic's Claude Code mods let customers block tool calls and approve or refuse permissions.• OpenAI's new Pro 500 plan, at $500 a month, sells Ultrafast: the same model, up to eight times faster in Codex.• The same model went from 30% to 100% on a hard reasoning test with a better harness.• The labs signed a "morally binding" accord. Nobody signed anything about the harness you run. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.