How AI Agents Are Changing Research Velocity Inside OpenAI

OpenAI published internal data on how coding agents are reshaping their own research workflows, Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas shipped a hybrid compute model for sensitive data in the Mac app, and Anish Acharya at a16z reframed the jobs-versus-AI narrative by arguing every job function becomes a loop that AI accelerates rather than eliminates.