Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can plug in financial feeds and other specialized sources through the Model Context Protocol. The benchmarks come with the usual lack of transparency.

OpenAI is adding reasoning and web search to its ChatGPT Images 2.0 image generator. The model can now create up to eight consistent images from a single prompt and handles text in general, and especially in non-Latin scripts, significantly better.

To create value with AI agents, organizations must institute robust controls.