Agentic Mornings — November 6, 2026: AI Agents in Production — Reliability, Retries, and Failure Modes

Uber's agents booked just 4 rides in 320 million; METR says Anthropic's AI is now improving twice as fast; OpenAI's GPT-6 Cyber found 81 Firefox flaws; Google bets $17B on Wyoming. Then the deep dive: what it takes to run AI agents in production — idempotency, retries, timeouts, and failure modes. AI Generated