This weekly update highlights major advances in agentic AI systems and their real-world applications. Scientists and companies are working to make AI agents smarter and more useful for important tasks.

One exciting development involves multi-agent teams, where several AI assistants work together on projects. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, which can coordinate multiple agents to handle different parts of large jobs like analyzing documents and creating presentations. This helps humans accomplish more work faster by dividing tasks among AI helpers.

Companies are also building tools to help businesses use AI agents safely. OpenAI launched a service called Frontier that makes it easier for companies to build and manage AI agents in their existing computer systems. At the same time, Snowflake and OpenAI partnered to add AI agents directly into business data platforms. These agents can answer questions about company information and analyze data automatically.

An interesting new tool called OpenClaw lets AI agents like Claude or ChatGPT work on their own to manage emails, filter messages, and complete other repetitive tasks. However, experts warn that giving agents too much freedom to act without supervision could create safety risks.

In scientific discovery, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States developed a clever AI compression method to process huge amounts of data from particle collisions. Instead of recording every bit of information, the AI smartly identifies what matters most and saves space. This breakthrough helps scientists capture more collision events and make new discoveries about how the universe works.