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AI Race Heats Up as OpenAI & Anthropic Unleash Agent Armies!

AI Development and Cyberattacks Dominate Tech News

Developments in artificial intelligence took center stage this week, with OpenAI and Anthropic releasing new models and platforms aimed at enhancing AI agent capabilities. Meanwhile, a major European university suffered a disruptive cyberattack.

OpenAI launched OpenAI Frontier on Thursday, an end-to-end platform designed for enterprises to build and manage AI agents, according to TechCrunch. The open platform allows users to manage agents built both inside and outside of OpenAI. Frontier enables users to program AI agents to connect to external data and applications, expanding their task execution capabilities beyond the OpenAI platform. Users can also manage agent access and actions. OpenAI designed Frontier to mirror the way companies manage human employees, offering an onboarding process for agents.

The company also launched GPT-5.3 Codex, an upgraded version of its coding tool, Codex, on Monday. OpenAI claims the new model transforms Codex into an agent capable of performing nearly any task a developer or professional can on a computer. The company said that GPT-5.3 Codex is 25 percent faster than its predecessor, GPT-5.2, and was instrumental in its own creation. OpenAI claims it can create complex games and apps from scratch in days.

Anthropic released Opus 4.6 on Thursday, the latest version of its most advanced model, Claude Code. According to TechCrunch, Opus 4.6 includes "agent teams," allowing for the division of larger tasks into segmented jobs. Scott White, Head of Product at Anthropic, compared the new feature to having a talented team of humans working together. "Instead of one agent working through tasks sequentially, you can split the work across multiple agents each owning its piece and coordinating directly with the others," the company said.

In other news, La Sapienza in Rome, one of Europe's largest universities, experienced a cyberattack that took its computer systems offline for three days. The university, with approximately 120,000 students, took its systems down as a precaution following the attack, according to an Instagram post on Tuesday. The university is investigating the incident and working to restore all digital services, with some communication channels partially limited. The school is working to restore systems based on backups that were not affected by the hack. Italian news outlet Il Corriere della Sera reported that the disruption was due to a ransomware attack. As of this writing, the university's website remains down.

Adding to the week's tech developments, Elon Musk's plans for orbital data centers appear to be moving forward. SpaceX filed plans with the FCC for a million-satellite data center network. The formal merger between SpaceX and xAI went forward on Monday, officially drawing together Musk's space and AI ventures. On Wednesday, the FCC accepted the filing and set a schedule seeking public comment.

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