--- title: The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for... description: This newsletter roundup covers AI agents transforming the internet into an 'agentic web,' plus a wave of tech news. A $1 trillion tech selloff has deepened... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads-0exgjaotm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads | daily.dev og:description: This newsletter roundup covers AI agents transforming the internet into an 'agentic web,' plus a wave of tech news. A $1 trillion tech selloff has deepened... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads-0exgjaotm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0EXgJAOtm.png og:image:alt: The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This newsletter roundup covers AI agents transforming the internet into an 'agentic web,' plus a wave of tech news. A $1 trillion tech selloff has deepened fears of an AI bubble, with OpenAI cutting its funding target by $10 billion. Binance users withdrew $3.6 billion after the largest ever crypto hack. An AI agent reportedly injected drugs into a live mouse's brain, choosing the gene therapy and controlling the needle itself. Apple overtook Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, and quantum computing is described as converging on utility faster than Nvidia's CEO predicted. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the agentic web and how is it different from the web we use now The agentic web is an internet navigated by autonomous AI agents that act on your behalf instead of you using browsers and search engines directly, an idea Tim Berners-Lee articulated in 2001. A quarter-century later, AI agents are beginning to make it real, able to triage inboxes, do grocery shopping, and access bank accounts. _Developers building agentic systems can track how the underlying tools evolve on daily.dev._ ### Why are investors worried about an AI bubble right now A $1 trillion tech selloff hit markets amid big AI bills and weak earnings, with the Nasdaq 100 having its worst day since June. OpenAI responded by cutting its fundraising target by $10 billion. Commentators like New York Times columnist Kevin Roose have said an investment crash would be preferable to AI permanently upending work and society. _Anyone weighing AI infrastructure bets can follow bubble signals like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid](https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-ai-s-trillion-dollar-gamble-and-openai-s-biology-data-bid-dnc4exkya) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Agentic AI Is Unstoppable — And the World Is Just Starting to Realize It](https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-is-unstoppable-and-the-world-is-just-starting-to-realize-it-ythz74wij) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The agentic web is here](https://daily.dev/posts/the-agentic-web-is-here-wwrokefu8) · MIT Technology Review · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The biggest AI stories of the year \(so far\)](https://daily.dev/posts/the-biggest-ai-stories-of-the-year-so-far--fuqp38y8w) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [From stocks to crypto, markets reel as AI doubts grow](https://daily.dev/posts/from-stocks-to-crypto-markets-reel-as-ai-doubts-grow-wuscja6ia) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cyber](https://daily.dev/tags/cyber), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#quantum-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/quantum-computing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads-0exgjaotm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Download: the agentic web arrives and the drive for safer roads","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads-0exgjaotm","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-download-the-agentic-web-arrives-and-the-drive-for-safer-roads-0exgjaotm"},"datePublished":"2026-11-02T13:43:21.307Z","dateModified":"2026-11-02T13:43:50.170Z","description":"This newsletter roundup covers AI agents transforming the internet into an 'agentic web,' plus a wave of tech news. 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