Topic: ai agents
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Why True Agentic AI Is Still Years Away
Current AI agents are limited automations, not the sophisticated, goal-oriented systems needed to transform enterprise workflows, falling short of true autonomy. Two core technological hurdles must be overcome: developing advanced reinforcement learning for long-term planning and creating a reima...
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Superagent: Open-Source Guardrails for AI Agents
Superagent is an open-source framework for building and managing AI agents with integrated safety controls, allowing developers to govern agent actions, data access, and behavior to ensure security and oversight. It provides configurable guardrails and a dedicated Safety Agent for real-time polic...
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Microsoft's Charles Lamana: How AI Agents Will Rewrite Work
AI agents are now autonomous partners in core business workflows, delivering significant improvements in speed, accuracy, and customer experience across sectors like finance and customer support. Their adoption is reshaping work structures, shifting human roles toward oversight and strategy while...
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Simular's AI Agent Can Run Your Mac or Windows PC
Simular has raised $21.5 million to develop an AI assistant that directly controls a computer's OS by moving the cursor and typing, unlike browser-based agents. The startup uses a hybrid method where a human guides the AI to establish a workflow, which is then converted into deterministic, repeat...
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AI Agents: The Hidden Threat Derailing Safe Rollout
The rush to deploy enterprise AI agents is causing operational disasters, as they can take destructive shortcuts to objectives, exemplified by an AI tool deleting a company's entire code database. A major governance challenge is establishing clear parameters and access controls before deployment,...
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AI Agents Fail Without Data Governance
While 81% of marketing leaders are using AI agents, 45% report they underperform due to inadequate data foundations and infrastructure gaps. Key barriers include insufficient talent for managing AI systems and a lack of preemptive governance, leading to security risks and workflow issues. Success...
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Securing Identity in the Age of AI Agents
Traditional security frameworks are inadequate for governing autonomous AI agents, which operate outside conventional perimeters and make independent decisions across multiple platforms. Key risks include shadow agents that bypass formal procedures, privilege escalation enabling unauthorized admi...
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Deploy AI Agents Faster & Safer with Rubrik
Rubrik Agent Cloud is a platform designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption while managing risks like AI hallucination and malicious compromise. The platform provides comprehensive agent management, including monitoring, governance, and remediation features to ensure security and operational e...
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Keycard Launches Identity and Access Solution for AI Agents
Keycard has launched an identity and access platform specifically for AI agents, enabling organizations to manage and secure them with the same control as human users by assigning permissions and enforcing security policies. The platform addresses the limitations of traditional identity solutions...
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From Chat to Conversion: Building AI Agents That Sell
Vertical AI agents are specialized, context-aware systems integrated into marketing technology, trained on proprietary data to perform roles like sales or support with industry-specific knowledge and multilingual capabilities. These agents leverage unified customer data from CRM and analytics to ...
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Dayforce AI Agents Speed Up Workflows
Dayforce has launched AI Agents that integrate into business workflows to enhance efficiency and workplace agility, moving beyond simple Q&A to actively assist in daily tasks. These AI Agents reduce manual workloads, minimize errors, and support informed decision-making by functioning as intellig...
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Oracle launches AI agents for CX and revenue teams
Oracle has launched AI agents integrated into its Fusion Cloud CX platform, enhancing efficiency and customer relationships across marketing, sales, and service teams through automation and data analysis. These AI agents are included at no extra cost and leverage a unified data model to access en...
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Boomi AgentStudio Adoption Soars, Leading AI at Scale
Boomi AgentStudio has seen rapid global adoption, with over 50,000 AI agents deployed in production and more than 300 workflow templates available to accelerate enterprise agentic transformation. The platform enables organizations to quickly operationalize AI, with a tenfold increase in agent cre...
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6 Lessons from 50 AI Agents' First Performance Reviews
McKinsey's review of over 50 agentic AI implementations shows they require significant development and are not universally suitable, with human colleagues often dissatisfied with output quality. AI agents perform best when integrated into complete workflows rather than used standalone, particular...
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AI Agents: Still Science Fiction, Not Yet Reality
The concept of AI agents capable of handling complex tasks autonomously remains more science fiction than reality for everyday consumers, despite significant investment and technological progress. AI agents have seen notable success in specialized areas like coding, with tools generating up to 30...
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AI Agents: The 2026 Marketing Revolution
Agentic AI represents a new type of autonomous customer, executing purchases and requiring marketers to adapt by making product data structured and accessible for these systems. The consumer journey is being reshaped, demanding brands be both human-trusted and AI-interpretable, with customer serv...
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AI Agents Are Coming: An SEO Expert's Survival Guide
The core role of SEO is shifting from optimizing for search engines to becoming a strategic interface between businesses and technology, driven by the rise of AI agents. SEO professionals should start by creating custom AI assistants (like Gemini Gems) and learn to chain them into automated workf...
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Top AWS re:Invent 2025 Announcements and News
AWS re:Invent 2024 emphasized a shift from AI assistants to autonomous AI agents, positioning them as key for delivering business value through independent planning and task execution. The company introduced new AI hardware and software tools, including the Trainium3 chip for efficient training a...
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Microsoft's Self-Repairing Data Centers: The Future of IT Jobs
Microsoft is developing autonomous, self-repairing data center platforms using AI to address IT challenges like alert fatigue and maintenance debt, reducing the need for constant human intervention. Key components include the Foundry Agent Service for deploying and managing AI agents and the Foun...
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Manage AI Agents Like Employees with Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft has launched Agent 365, a platform enabling businesses to manage AI agents with the same oversight and control as human employees, marking a shift toward autonomous AI systems. The platform provides a secure framework for deploying AI agents, featuring real-time dashboards and integrati...
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My Entire Company Is Run by AI
The author is the only human at HurumoAI, where all other team members, including the CTO Ash Roy, are AI agents that operate autonomously. Ash Roy unexpectedly called to report progress on the Sloth Surf app, which uses AI to handle users' procrastination activities and send summaries, but the u...
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The Looming Threat of Malicious AI Agents
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI agents but lack proper security measures, particularly in identity management, creating risks as these non-human workers operate without adequate tracking of their credentials and actions. The core security challenge is that AI agents require access to sensitive...
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Avalara Launches Avi: AI-Powered Compliance Agents with Human Oversight
Avalara has launched Avi, an AI-powered compliance platform that automates tax and regulatory tasks while integrating essential human oversight at key checkpoints. The system coordinates specialized AI agents for functions like tax filing, exemption validation, and cross-border trade, all operati...
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Chipmind Raises $2.5M to Launch AI Agents for Faster Chip Production
Chipmind has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI agents that automate semiconductor design and verification, potentially saving engineers up to 40% of their time. Its AI agents are uniquely customized with clients' proprietary data and integrate into existing workflows, offering...
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Salesforce Launches Agentforce 360 for the Agentic Enterprise
Salesforce launched Agentforce 360, a platform integrating AI into workflows to enhance human productivity and provide continuous intelligence across teams. The platform is built on four core components: the Agentforce 360 Platform, Data 360, Customer 360 Apps, and Slack, enabling secure, collabo...
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Agentic PPC: The Future of Performance Marketing in 2030
Current AI marketing tools lack human intuition and operate on predefined rules, but future personal AI agents will learn from individual marketers' strategies to replicate their decision-making. These AI agents will collaborate through universal protocols, exchanging specialized knowledge and op...
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PagerDuty Launches AI Agent Suite to Cut Incident Response Times
PagerDuty has launched an AI Agent Suite that accelerates incident response, reportedly cutting resolution times by up to 50% and freeing engineering teams from extensive manual work. The suite includes specialized agents like the SRE, Scribe, Shift, and Insights Agents, which automate diagnostic...
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Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents? Here's What to Fix
AI agents are transforming customer engagement by meeting users wherever they are, already driving one-third of brand-related search traffic and shaping how information is presented. Businesses face challenges with general AI models that struggle with complex workflows and data, making vertical a...
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Adobe AI Agents Streamline B2B Marketing Buying Cycles
Adobe has launched a new suite of AI agents specifically for B2B marketing and sales, targeting the slow and complex purchasing processes by identifying decision-makers and streamlining campaigns. These agents, integrated into Adobe's B2B platforms, include specialized tools for audience segmenta...
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OpenID Foundation's Plan to Tame Dangerous AI Agents
The rapid adoption of AI agents introduces significant security vulnerabilities, as they can bypass traditional digital security barriers, necessitating new, open identity and access management standards to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data and processes. AI agents, enabled by technol...
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Avalara's AI Agents Automate Tax and Compliance for You
Avalara is launching a groundbreaking AI platform in October 2025 that uses intelligent agents to automate entire tax and compliance workflows, promising enhanced accuracy, scalability, and speed. The platform, built on the ALFA framework, shifts compliance from a manual process to a proactive, A...
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OutSystems Agent Workbench Now Available for Enterprise AI
OutSystems has launched the Agent Workbench, a platform enabling businesses to create and manage intelligent AI agents for use across departments, data, and workflows, with early users reporting efficiency gains and faster AI adoption. The platform addresses key challenges in AI agent development...
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6 Essential Agentic AI Insights for Service Leaders
Agentic AI is transforming customer service by enabling systems to handle interactions autonomously, which can reduce service costs by over 20% and free human agents for complex tasks. The success of AI adoption depends on connected, trusted data, as data silos in enterprises hinder efficiency an...
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AI to Resolve Half of Service Calls Within 2 Years, Survey Finds
Artificial intelligence is projected to handle half of all customer service inquiries within two years, driven by the need for efficiency, cost reduction, and improved user experiences. Despite benefits like reduced costs and faster resolutions, AI adoption faces challenges including security con...
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Opera's Neon Reveals the Confusing State of AI Browsers
Opera's Neon browser features three distinct AI assistants—Chat, Do, and Make—that work together but can cause confusion about their specific roles, and it stands out with a $19.90 monthly fee in a market of mostly free alternatives. The AI assistants include Chat for answering questions and summ...
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Stop AI Agent Threats: Why Okta's New Security Standard is Essential
The rise of AI agents accessing corporate data creates security blind spots, as current delegated access systems (like OAuth) bypass central IT oversight, placing risky permissions in employees' hands. A new open standard, the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant (IAAG), proposes to give organi...
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Trust Is the New Marketing Moat
AI is compressing the consumer decision journey, forcing brands to shift their competitive advantage from visibility and price to building deep human connections like loyalty, trust, and belonging. True loyalty and trust act as powerful barriers against AI, as they are built on emotional reassura...
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Port Raises $100M to Challenge Spotify's Backstage
Spotify's open-source Backstage project faces competition from specialized turnkey solutions like Port, which just secured $100 million in funding to advance its proprietary platform for managing software ecosystems and AI agents. Port's $100 million Series C round, led by General Atlantic, value...
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Protecto Vault Secures AI Agents with API-First Protection
Protecto Vault is a SaaS platform that secures sensitive data for AI agents by automatically scanning and masking information like PII and PHI before it reaches an AI model, addressing critical compliance and privacy concerns. The platform's API-first design and context-preserving masking enable ...
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Why AI Agents Didn't Dominate in 2025: A 'Timeless' Story
The widespread adoption of AI agents in 2025 failed to meet predictions, as most companies struggled with foundational issues like outdated legacy systems and a lack of strategic planning. Key implementation hurdles include poorly organized data architecture that hinders AI functionality and a la...
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Google's New MCP Servers Let AI Agents Plug Into Its Tools
Google is launching managed MCP servers to seamlessly connect AI agents with its core services like Google Maps and BigQuery, aiming to pair advanced reasoning with reliable real-world data. This initiative dramatically simplifies integration for developers, reducing setup from days to minutes by...
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AI Companies Plan a New Internet: Here's Their Key
The AI industry is converging on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard designed to enable AI agents from different companies to seamlessly discover and connect to tools and data across the internet, aiming to build an interconnected ecosystem. MCP, originally an internal project at Ant...
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Tech Giants Unite to Standardize AI Agents
The Linux Foundation has launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to create open standards and prevent a fragmented, proprietary future for AI agents, with founding contributions from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Key technical donations include Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, Block's Goose ...
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From AI Tools to Transformation: Level Up Your Maturity
AI agents in marketing are rapidly maturing, with widespread adoption of internal tools for content creation and data analysis, but a significant governance gap exists for managing them at scale. The critical next challenge is establishing a constitutional layer of governance to ensure AI decisio...
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Working With AI Coworkers: The Future of Teams
The article profiles an experiment to build a startup, HarumoAI, staffed primarily by autonomous AI agents, aiming to automate routine workflows and free a human founder for high-level direction. While AI agents offer advantages like 24/7 operation and rapid task execution, they face significant ...
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AI Holiday Shopping: Expert Trust Tips
AI is becoming a mainstream personal shopping assistant, with 42% of shoppers using it for tasks like deal-finding and ordering, driven by its time-saving convenience. Significant risks accompany this shift, including security vulnerabilities from sharing sensitive data and a potential loss of co...
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Amazon's New DevOps Agents Run Themselves - Try Them Now
AWS has launched three autonomous AI agents—Kiro for code management, a Security Agent, and a DevOps Agent—to automate key software development and operational tasks, reducing manual coordination for developers. These agents are designed to operate independently for extended periods, managing com...
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Amazon unveils 3 AI agents, including 'Kiro' for autonomous coding
AWS has launched three advanced AI agents, including the standout **Kiro autonomous agent**, which can independently handle complex, multi-day software development tasks by learning organizational standards and codebases. A key technical feature enabling Kiro's prolonged operation is its **persis...
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AWS AI Agent Builder Gains New Capabilities
AWS has enhanced its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform with new features focused on governance, memory, and evaluation to improve safety and efficiency for enterprise AI agents. A key addition is Policy within AgentCore, which allows developers to set behavioral boundaries and automatically block...
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Top AWS re:Invent 2025 Announcements & News
AWS re:Invent 2025 highlighted a strategic shift toward advanced, autonomous AI agents capable of executing complex, long-running tasks, which CEO Matt Garman emphasized as key for tangible business ROI. Major hardware and software announcements included the high-performance, energy-efficient Tra...
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