The agentic web is here<\/h3>\n
In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision: an internet navigated by autonomous software agents that address our every need, without requiring us to muck about with browsers and search engines ourselves.<\/p>\n
At the time, the idea seemed far-fetched. But a quarter-century on, AI agents are beginning to make it a reality. They can triage your inbox, do your grocery shopping, and even access your bank accounts.<\/p>\n
This new era is being called the agentic web. It will inevitably transform the internet\u2014and whether the human web survives this transition is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n
Find out how AI agents are transforming the internet, and what we stand to lose in the process.<\/p>\n
\u2014Grace Huckins<\/em><\/p>\n Every year, traffic crashes kill more than 1 million people worldwide. They\u2019re also the leading cause of death for children and young adults. Cheap, proven ways to make roads safer exist, including tightening intersections with planters and lowering speed limits. But government logjams and red tape can make it difficult to roll out these changes.<\/p>\n Still, some cities are making impressive progress by investing in public transit, extending curbs, and using cameras to spot danger zones in need of a redesign.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how close we are to eradicating traffic deaths.<\/p>\n \u2014Sara Kiley Watson<\/em><\/p>\n This story<\/em> is the final part of<\/em> \u201cAre we there yet?\u201d<\/em>, our series that takes stock of six technologies that have long promised to change the world\u2014and scores them on a progress meter.<\/em> Subscribe to read the other five instalments<\/em> in our<\/em> new Impossible issue<\/em>.<\/p>\n The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n 1 A $1 trillion tech selloff has deepened fears of an AI bubble<\/strong> 2 Hackers have hit Ukraine and Russia\u2019s emergency alert apps 3 Binance users withdrew $3.6 billion after the largest ever crypto hack 4 An AI agent injected drugs into a live mouse\u2019s brain 5 Data centres have made utilities a flashpoint in the midterms 6 Apple has overtaken Nvidia as the world\u2019s most valuable company<\/strong> 7 Supermarket fridges have overheated in a new wave of cyberattacks 8 The first chocolate bars made from lab-grown cocoa are here<\/strong> 9 Hackers hijacked digital billboards in multiple countries to show porn 10 A new 3D map reveals instability in interstellar space Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2014Kevin Roose, a technology columnist at the New York Times, tells NPR that an AI investment crash would be preferable to the technology permanently upending work and society.<\/p>\n One more thing<\/strong><\/p>\n Last year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical quantum computing is still 15 to 30 years away. He also suggested that those computers would need Nvidia GPUs to function. But Huang\u2019s predictions miss the mark\u2014both on the timeline and the role his company\u2019s technology will play. <\/p>\n Quantum computing is rapidly converging on utility. And that\u2019s good news, because the hope is that they will be able to perform calculations that no amount of AI or classical computation could ever achieve. Read the full story.<\/p>\n \u2014Peter Barrett<\/em><\/p>\n We can still have nice things<\/strong><\/p>\n A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas?<\/em> Drop me a line<\/em>.)<\/em><\/p>\n + A miniaturist has built a delightful diorama of the world’s creepiest living room. #Download #agentic #web #arrives #drive #safer #roads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3630,1127,803,2958,1846,10041,15046,173],"class_list":["post-25152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-agentic","tag-arrives","tag-download","tag-drive","tag-roads","tag-safer","tag-the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads","tag-web"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MAIN-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Are we there yet? Eliminating traffic deaths<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Big AI bills and weak earnings have spooked investors. (BBC)
+ The Nasdaq 100 had its worst day since June on Friday.<\/em> (NBC News)
+ OpenAI has cut its funding target by $10 billion.<\/em> (CNBC)
+ What even is the AI bubble?<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Kyiv residents were warned of \u201cnuclear danger.\u201d (NBC News)
+ Russia\u2019s app said nuclear warheads had been launched.<\/em> (CNN)
+ Ukraine has blamed Russia, which hasn\u2019t yet accused anyone.<\/em> (BI)
+ AI will transform cyber warfare.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The funds moved when the exchange reopened on Sunday. (Guardian)
+ Binance says it\u2019s covered $6 billion of the stolen $6.3 billion.<\/em> (Reuters $)
+ But the industry\u2019s response has undermined its \u201cdecentralized\u201d image.<\/em> (Gizmodo)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>It chose the gene therapy and controlled the needle itself. (Wired $)
+ We need real-time tracking of AI agents.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Americans are angry over rising electricity bills. (Reuters $)
+ Virtual power plants could help.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n
Investors are favouring its restraint on AI spending. (Bloomberg $)
+ But critics say it\u2019s entering its \u201cslop era.\u201d<\/em> (404 Media)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Stores in Belgium, Sweden, and Luxembourg were hit. (Politico)<\/p>\n
Startups are cultivating chocolate to tackle a cocoa shortage. (WSJ $)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>They also criticized security flaws and Egypt\u2019s government.(Gizmodo)<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The discovery could help explain why stars form so inefficiently. (Quanta)<\/p>\n\u201cIt would be great if all this was just a house of cards.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/figure>\nUseful quantum computing is inevitable\u2014and increasingly imminent<\/h4>\n
+ The year’s best dog photos have been announced, and they’re very good boys and girls.
+ At the Green Zone golf club, you tee off in Sweden and putt in Finland, an hour in the future.
+ Astronomers say they\u2019ve found the real celestial arrangement that inspired van Gogh\u2019s The Starry Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n