With apologies to Philip K. Dick fans, we can now offer at least one answer to the question posed by his 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The answer is no — AI agents dream about work. (Agents: They’re just like us.)
In April, Anthropic launched the public beta of Managed Agents, its platform for running AI agents on its infrastructure.
On Wednesday, the company announced it is expanding Managed Agents with three new capabilities: dreaming, outcome focus, and multi-agent orchestration. These features, Anthropic says, will “make agents more capable at handling complex tasks with minimal steering.”
As Senior Editor Frederic Lardinois reports, the “dreaming” concept works like this: Just as the human brain consolidates memory during sleep, Claude in Managed Agents will now run a scheduled process to review recent work, identify patterns, and store updated observations in memory.
Read the full story, including how to access the new “dream” feature: Anthropic will let its managed agents dream.
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