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Editorial illustration on a near-white ground: three small org charts of navy cards, with amber AI cards placed beneath the people, beside them and between them, labelled Beneath, Beside and Between, under the headline The future of the firm Insights · Category basics

OpenAI's Future of the Firm: AI Beneath, Beside, Between

Two OpenAI researchers argue AI will enter companies beneath people, beside them and between them, and that the first path needs no layoffs. The scenarios, the questions, our read.

Nitish Garg· 28 October 2026· 6 min read
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28 OCT 2026 OpenAI's Future of the Firm: AI Beneath, Beside, Between Two OpenAI researchers argue AI will enter companies beneath people, beside them and between them, and that the first path needs no layoffs. The scenarios, the questions, our read. InsightsCategory basics 6 min
Editorial illustration on a near-white ground: three small org charts of navy cards, with amber AI cards placed beneath the people, beside them and between them, labelled Beneath, Beside and Between, under the headline The future of the firm
 28 OCT 2026 Axiom Verifies the Finite Simple Groups Proof in Lean Axiom's AI agent swarms wrote a 43.1 million line Lean proof of the classification of finite simple groups in 24 days. They found 34 noteworthy deviations from the published record along the way. InsightsMulti-agent 6 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: a stack of paper labelled 15,000 pages, an arrow to a code window with a teal check and an orange 24 days tag, and the number 43.1M lines of Lean, under the headline Every finite simple group, checked
 26 OCT 2026 OpenAI Claims Yang-Mills, ETH and Kakeya Proofs OpenAI says its models proved Kakeya in every dimension, refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis and showed Yang-Mills exists. Two proofs are Lean-checked and public; physics is held back. InsightsEngineering 7 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: three large tiles labelled MATH, CS and PHYSICS, the first two stamped with a green LEAN CHECKED badge and the third sealed in a navy envelope labelled WITHHELD
 24 OCT 2026 We Tested 4 AI Video Upscalers Against Native 1080p Three AI clips, four upscalers, one native 1080p render. Faithful upscalers sharpen what is there; generative ones rebuild it, sometimes wrongly. Results, costs and our picks. InsightsEngineering 12 min
Editorial illustration on off-white paper: a small blocky film frame labeled 480p, a teal arrow to a large crisp film frame labeled 1080p with an amber magnifying glass over one corner, and the numbers 20% of the pixels and 5.9x cheaper than re-rendering.
 24 OCT 2026 One Agent or Subagents? What We Learned Running AI Employees Anthropic told agent builders to fold most subagents into one loop. We agree for tasks. For always-on AI employees, memory changes the answer. InsightsEngineering 9 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a teal loop with research, code, video, audio and document icons and two short orange side branches, beside three tall columns in blue, amber and coral with rising memory bars, under the words 1 loop per task, 1 role per agent
 24 OCT 2026 Microsoft Autopilot's Meeting Agent: How It Decides Omar Shahine, who leads Microsoft Autopilot, shows how his agent answers meeting invites: rules settle 71%, a decision model acts only above 90% confidence. InsightsCategory basics 7 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a column of blue invite envelopes pours through a funnel into a filed tray, and only three continue to a coral question card, beside the large figure 71% labelled handled by plain rules
 24 OCT 2026 Avalon-M1: AI Agents Trained to Work as a Company General Reasoning's RLCR trains AI agents as one organisation with a shared reward. What emerged: lead engineers, peer review, more helping, and fewer reports to human overseers. InsightsMulti-agent 6 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: an org chart of small agent figures with a CEO at the top, a lead engineer in the middle and reviewers on the side, with a large number 9 and the words agents per team
 22 OCT 2026 Microsoft MAI-DxO in Science: 83% vs Doctors' 36% Microsoft AI's diagnostic orchestrator, published in Science, reached 83.2% on 304 hard NEJM cases against 36.1% for physicians. The five-role panel behind it, the costs and the limits. InsightsMulti-agent 6 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: five small teal figures sit around a navy case file at a round table, one figure holding an amber question card, with two big numbers, 83.2% for the AI panel and 36.1% for physicians
 22 OCT 2026 Claude Max Usage Limits A/B Test: What Is Confirmed SemiAnalysis says some Claude Max 20x accounts get a 19% larger five-hour window and a 20% smaller weekly budget. The numbers, what Anthropic has said, and what to check on your plan. InsightsCost & ROI 5 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: two side-by-side Claude Max 20x meters labeled Account A and Account B, the five-hour bar slightly taller on B and the weekly bar shorter on B, with a large -20% weekly label
 22 OCT 2026 Anthropic Donates Agent Skills to the AAIF Anthropic donated Agent Skills, the SKILL.md standard used by 70+ agent platforms, to the Agentic AI Foundation: the name, GitHub org and domain move, and a security roadmap comes next. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Editorial data illustration on a near-white ground: a teal folder holding a SKILL.md card is handed from a navy Anthropic hand to an amber-roofed foundation building, while lines fan out from the folder to a grid of agent platform tiles labeled 70+ platforms
 21 OCT 2026 humans& Ampersand: A Model Trained to Know When to Speak humans& released Ampersand, a model built on GLM 5.3 and trained to sit in a group and choose between speaking and passing. What it scored, what it costs, and where it is weaker. InsightsMulti-agent 6 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a column of four chat bubbles, two tagged pass and one tagged speak with a teal line linking it back to the first, beside the large figures 17.3% for the base model with a partner and 39.0% for Ampersand with a partner
 21 OCT 2026 OpenAI Models Come to Google Cloud: What's Included OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are rolling out in private preview on Google Cloud, billed on the Google invoice. Microsoft stays the primary cloud partner. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: one teal model block sends three lines to three cloud shapes labelled Azure, Oracle and Google Cloud, the Google Cloud line in amber, beside the large text Oct 21
 21 OCT 2026 NVIDIA OpenShell: A Reference Architecture for Safe Agents NVIDIA's OpenShell Reference Architecture puts every agent in a kernel-level sandbox, runs it on Vera CPUs and polices it from BlueField DPUs. What shipped, and what is open. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a small teal robot agent works at a laptop inside a glass box whose wall stops an amber arrow, standing on three layers labelled Rubin think, Vera act and BlueField govern, beside the large word OpenShell
 21 OCT 2026 KLS Conjecture Solved With AI: What the Proof Says Two researchers proved the 31-year-old KLS conjecture after exploring 100+ approaches with AI agents. Two more groups posted proofs within days, and unguided AI runs fell short. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a branching tree of grey research paths with one teal path reaching a navy blob cut by a straight teal line, beside the large figure 31 and the lines years from conjecture to proof and 100+ approaches explored with AI agents
 21 OCT 2026 Daytona Raises $60M at $1B to Give Every Agent a Computer Daytona raised $60M at a $1B valuation to give every AI agent its own computer. We checked its growth figures against each other and priced a sandbox from its list. InsightsMulti-agent 7 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: one small teal computer cube multiplies into a rising cascade of identical cubes, a few in amber, beside the large figures $1B valuation and 25x revenue growth since January
 21 OCT 2026 Claude Duet: Anthropic's Proactive Agent, Explained Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, an app where Claude briefs you, runs tasks on its own cloud computer and asks before it sends or pays. What it does and who gets it. InsightsMulti-agent 7 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a phone with one chat thread linked to a small cloud computer holding three task cards, one paused with an amber hold badge, beside the words Claude Duet, a proactive agent that checks with you first, 6,000+ connectors
 21 OCT 2026 ChatGPT Ads Hit $1B Run Rate: How the Ad Stack Works OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion run rate less than 200 days after launch. Its engineers explain the LLM that reads the chat, picks candidates and leaves the price to an auction. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a column of chat bubbles feeding a teal orchestrator block that sends a few candidate cards toward an amber auction gavel, beside the large figure $1B and smaller text annual run rate
 21 OCT 2026 Anthropic API 2026-10-21: Breaking Changes and SDK 2.0 Anthropic shipped Claude API version 2026-10-21 and new SDK majors. Sampling parameters now return a 400, keys move to a Bearer header, and the SDKs switch to Apache 2.0. InsightsMulti-agent 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: two API request cards, 2023-06-01 with temperature, top_p and top_k dials and a teal check, 2026-10-21 with the same dials crossed out in amber and a 400, beside a large 8 for seven SDKs and the CLI
 20 OCT 2026 OpenAI 12-Hour Prompt Caching: When It Pays Off OpenAI added a 12-hour prompt cache to the Responses API. It costs more to write, but an agent that calls once an hour pays about 75% less than with no cache. InsightsCost & ROI 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a day timeline with twelve hourly ticks under one long lit cache bar, a single large write block at the start and thin read slivers after it, under the large figure 12 h
 19 OCT 2026 Tolan Raises $30M for Its AI Companion: The Numbers Tolan, the AI companion built outside Silicon Valley, raised $30M from USV, Khosla and Homebrew. Who uses it, what it earns, what the money buys, and the risks TechCrunch names. InsightsCategory basics 5 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a smartphone showing a round teal companion character with a speech bubble, small calendar, shopping bag and heart icons around it, and three huge figures across the top: $30M new funding, 250K+ active users, 70M conversations in a year
 19 OCT 2026 Musk Pledges a SpaceX Share to Every US Kid: The Math Elon Musk pledged one SpaceX share to every kid in America, a day after urging Anthropic to give shares directly to the public. What it costs, who counts, and what is still unsaid. InsightsCategory basics 6 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a large navy block of SpaceX shares with one small amber share lifting off toward a long row of small teal figures of children, beside three huge numbers, 1 share each, about 72 million children and about $10.5 billion
 18 OCT 2026 Anthropic Commits 5% of Its Shares to a Public Fund Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a new fund for the public, with a growth escalator attached. The structure, the arithmetic, and what is still unpublished. InsightsCategory basics 7 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a large navy share pie with one teal 5 percent slice lifting out into a box labelled Public Benefit Fund, beside a rising staircase where each 50 percent step drops another amber 2 percent slice into the box, and three huge numbers, 5 percent committed, 2 percent per step and roughly 20 percent in total
 16 OCT 2026 Tesla Roadster Physics: Thrusters and Suction, Animated An engineering teardown of the 2026 Tesla Roadster: why tires cap 0-60, how fans and 80 kN of air thrust beat that cap, and what the tank, flight and refill really take. InsightsEngineering 23 min
Flat infographic: a low white sports car on a road with an amber exhaust plume of diamond shock bands, a tall force bar rising from it (teal tires and fans, then a huge amber thrusters segment above a dashed grip limit line), and the numbers 4.6 g and 0.59 s, 0-60 mph, Rocket trim.
 16 OCT 2026 GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT Gets Parallel Agents: What's New OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT: faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and several agents working on parts of one task at once. What it does and what OpenAI left out. InsightsMulti-agent 4 min
Data illustration on a near-white ground: a navy chat window splits one task into three teal lanes, each with a progress bar, ending in three completed task cards, one amber with a check; the word PARALLEL above
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