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Applied AI·August 27, 2026·1 min read

OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

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Persistent agents that keep working until they’re “put to sleep” move AI from on-demand tooling into background process territory—closer to cron jobs and daemons than chatbots. Before you deploy anything like this, define hard boundaries on what it can touch, how it reports state, and who is accountable when it acts on stale assumptions.

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