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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 9, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
AI Agents Are Taking Direct Control of Laboratory Instruments
OpenAI describes Codex calibrating qubits at MIT without constant supervision, weeks after Anthropic opened a specification for agents to operate physical hardware.
OpenAI published an account on September 8 of an MIT researcher connecting Codex, running GPT-5.6 Sol, to the software that coordinates a quantum computing laboratory. The model chose measurement parameters from the chip's design targets, o…
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Agents Get a Hardware Control Standard for Physical Instruments
The interface between AI agents and physical laboratory, factory and scientific equipment is being standardized the way tool-calling and MCP standardized software access, so expect recurring protocol proposals, instrument-vendor adoption, and control of the agent-to-hardware layer becoming a competitive position — with safety and liability questions arriving after deployment rather than before.
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