{"slug": "ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office", "title": "AI agents are coming to your home and office", "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman debuted the company's Dots AI agent platform on Tuesday, powered by OpenAI's Astra model, positioning it for the enterprise market with capabilities including triaging Slack notifications, preparing invoices, and making purchases with user permission. Meta unveiled its Muse agent earlier this month, aimed at consumers, and the app quickly topped Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store. The launches come as OpenAI said this week it is pausing the release of its Astra 6.1 model over safety concerns, following a summer of hacking incidents at leading AI companies and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI companies to slow frontier model development.", "body_md": "If you're not using an AI agent now, chances are you may be in the near future.\n\nOn Tuesday, OpenAI ([OPAI.PVT)](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/OPAI.PVT/) CEO Sam Altman debuted the [company's new Dots AI agent platform](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/openai-debuts-dots-ai-agents-in-challenge-to-metas-popular-muse-agent-174616593.html). Designed to handle both mundane tasks, like helping arrange your work schedule, and more complex operations, such as making purchases on your behalf or reviewing code, Dots is just the latest AI agent to hit the increasingly crowded space. \n\nEarlier this month, Meta ([META](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/)) [unveiled its Muse agent.](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/metas-muse-is-an-impressively-capable-ai-agent-despite-some-hiccups-173310662.html) The app quickly shot to the top of both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store. \n\nWhile Dots and Muse are intended for different audiences — OpenAI is initially positioning Dots for the enterprise space, while Meta is angling for the consumer market — the pair share one key similarity: they feature cute, customizable looks meant to make them appear more approachable. And that could drive adoption both in users' personal lives and in the office.\n\n[Powered by OpenAI's Astra model](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra-next-generation-work/), Dots can [triage Slack notifications](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/the-future-of-work-is-a-group-chat-of-ai-bots-talking-to-each-other-184248359.html), prepare invoices, and more. In a prepared demonstration, OpenAI showed how Dot can recognize that if you've got work scheduled through dinner, it can pull up delivery options and then order it for you with your permission. \n\n[Meta's Muse, which I've been using](https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/metas-muse-is-an-impressively-capable-ai-agent-despite-some-hiccups-173310662.html), has helped me parse my Verizon Wireless bill and compare it to competing offerings from AT&T and T-Mobile, search for movers, and set up breaking news alerts for the latest tech headlines. \n\nThe agents are a means to help companies move beyond traditional chatbots into a world where AI completes work for you.\n\nAgents aren't exactly new. I previously dubbed 2025 the year of the AI agent on big talk about the technology from companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), Google ([GOOG](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/), [GOOGL](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/)), and others. Earlier this year, OpenClaw took the tech world by storm thanks to its ability to run AI agents on users' personal computers.  \n\nThe latest push from Meta and OpenAI comes as AI agents gain greater capabilities thanks to more powerful underlying models.\n\nBut that's also led to a deluge of hacking incidents over the summer from leading AI companies, including OpenAI and Meta. This week, OpenAI said it is pausing the release of its Astra 6.1 model over safety concerns.\n\nEarlier this month, Anthropic ([ANTH.PVT](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ANTH.PVT/)) CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the development of frontier models. Altman said he agreed at the time. \n\n*Email Daniel Howley at dhowley@yahoofinance.com. Follow him on Twitter at* *@DanielHowley**.* \n\n**Read the latest financial and business news from Yahoo Finance.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office-195510062.html", "published_at": "2026-09-29 19:55:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 20:20:55.743017+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "large-language-models", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "Dots", "Meta", "Muse", "Astra", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-are-coming-to-your-home-and-office.jsonld"}}