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The agentic web is here
Publisher description: In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous software agents that could address our every…
MIT Technology Review | Nov 2, 2026 | Grace Huckins
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As agents flood online spaces, this new user base is changing the web for good. In this way, connectors can help make agents much safer online. Agents also use specialized tools to find information online.
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