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After a two-week government-requested delay, GPT-5.6 is now broadly available in three tiers — plus GPT-Live, a voice model that listens and speaks at the same time.
Chatbots answer questions. Agents get things done. Here's a plain-English guide to agentic AI — what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important shift in software since the cloud.
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