The rise of the agentic web: AI agents rewrite the internet
What happened
On 2 November 2026, MIT Technology Review published an article tracing how the agentic web is taking shape. According to the report, agents such as Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are already connected to email inboxes and bank accounts and can handle practical tasks on users' behalf; GPT-6 Astra achieved a 73% success rate on the OSWorld 2.0 benchmark, showing that agents can operate web pages like humans. The article describes this stage as the agentic web having "already arrived" and discusses how AI agents are rewriting the way people use the internet. The report does not give the specific timing or scope of these agents' connections to email inboxes and bank accounts, nor does it explain the test conditions or comparison baseline behind the 73% success rate.
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- MIT Technology Review · AIThe agentic web is here
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision.
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