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autonomous

[aw-ton-uh-muhs] / ɔˈtɒn ə məs /


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This cycle, multiplied many times over by the use of autonomous AI agents, was essential to OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes result.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Customs and Border Protection for hundreds of autonomous surveillance towers along the southern border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“Companies’ ambitions for truly autonomous agents are outrunning governance infrastructure, signaling that leaders need to act now to meaningfully benefit from this trend down the line.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

These have seen autonomous AI tools known as agents, developed by US firms including OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic, hack some online services.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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