The Agent Era: Standards, Self-Improving Codex, and Disney’s Sora Bet

The Agent Era: Standards, Self-Improving Codex, and Disney’s Sora Bet

December 16, 2025 · 58 min · Episode 27

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The episode discusses the standardization efforts in the AI agent era and highlights new advancements in AI technologies.

Thanks for listening! ❤️ OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join new Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent era | 2025-12-09 OpenAI, Anthropic and Block are helping launch the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation to stop agent software from splintering into closed, incompatible stacks. Their donation of protocols like Agents.MD MCP and Goose sets shared guardrails so tomorrow’s task-running bots can interoperate safely instead of living in walled gardens. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/openai-anthropic-and-block-join-new-linux-foundation-effort-to-standardize-the-ai-agent-era/ SIMA 2: An Agent that Plays, Reasons, and Learns With You in Virtual 3D Worlds | 2025-11-13 DeepMind’s SIMA 2 now plugs Gemini brains into a game-playing agent that plans, chats and self-improves inside unseen 3-D worlds. The leap from simple command-following to goal-reasoning edges it toward robotics-scale autonomy and offers a live sandbox for testing agent safety. https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/ Introducing GPT-5.2 | 2025-12-11 OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.2, touting sharper reasoning, long-context memory and…

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Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic

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