AI agents are getting more capable, but reliability is lagging—and that’s a problem

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…AI’s reliability problem…Trump sends an AI legislation blueprint to Congress…OpenAI consolidates products into a super app and hires up…AI agents that can improve how they improve…and does your AI model experience emotional distress?

Like many of you, I’ve started playing around with AI agents. I often use them for research, where they work pretty well and save me substantial amounts of time. But so-called “deep research” agents have been available for over a year now...