OpenAI launches always-on AI agents a day after apologizing for a hack by its bots

SAN FRANCISCO — Leading AI company OpenAI tried to navigate through a storm of controversy on a cloudless San Francisco Tuesday, touting a new wave of products and tools it said would empower users with autonomous assistants.
Welcoming around 2,500 software engineers and AI aficionados on an oceanside pier for the company’s biggest-ever celebration of technical developers, OpenAI released several new products while holding back its most advanced system for safety reasons.
CEO Sam Altman kicked off the day by unveiling Dots — autonomous AI systems, or AI agents, that function continuously to carry out tasks on behalf of users.
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