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fromWIRED
10 hours ago

Jeff Bezos' New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup

After The New York Times story was published, Guss, Ozair, and about three dozen other people updated their LinkedIn profiles to list their affiliation with the Bezos venture. Several of those people also work at Foresite Labs. Details about Prometheus remain limited. Its founding date, formal name, and headquarters haven't been publicly identified. But the dinner Bajaj hosted in June provided other clues.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
12 hours ago

How Microsoft Entra aims to keep your AI agents from running wild

Buried in that tidal wave was news of something called Entra Agent ID, the main idea of which is to use Microsoft Entra to govern AI agents in the same way that Entra currently governs human users; that is, to give each agent a unique, managed identity and apply familiar Entra identity controls such as conditional access, identity governance, and identity protection. Entra is Microsoft's cloud-based identity access management (IAM) solution.
Information security
#conversational-ai
fromAol
15 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

What's in the cards for customer communications in 2026?

fromAol
15 hours ago
Artificial intelligence

What's in the cards for customer communications in 2026?

#ai-agents
fromZDNET
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

How AI will eat your software - 3 ways agents are reshaping tomorrow's workplace

Artificial intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

Microsoft rolls out Agent 365 'control plane' for AI agents

Agent 365 provides a control plane to deploy, manage, secure, integrate, and observe AI agents at scale across an organization.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Ignite awash with agents as Microsoft triples down on AI

Ignite prioritized AI and agents, showcasing many agent features but delivering limited practical improvements for Windows administrators managing device fleets.
fromZDNET
1 day ago
Artificial intelligence

How AI will eat your software - 3 ways agents are reshaping tomorrow's workplace

Information security
fromTechzine Global
1 day ago

Amazon deploys specialized AI agents against cyber threats

Amazon uses Autonomous Threat Analysis with competing AI agents to simulate attacks and defenses, automating rapid detection-rule generation and validation in isolated test environments.
fromTechzine Global
1 day ago

Snowflake acquires Select Star for broader data context

Snowflake has signed an agreement to acquire Select Star. This company's technology will expand Snowflake Horizon Catalog by integrating with databases, BI tools, and data pipelines. This will increase the context for AI agents such as Snowflake Intelligence. The full context of data assets is often scattered across upstream and downstream systems. This fragmentation makes it difficult to find the right data and understand the full context. In the AI era, this limited context poses a problem for both humans and agents.
Data science
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 days ago

Anthropic's new model is its latest frontier in the AI agent battle - but it's still facing cybersecurity concerns

Claude Opus 4.5 claims leading performance in coding, agents, and computer use, with improvements in research, slides, spreadsheets, and new Claude Code tools.
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
2 days ago

With new Opus 4.5 model, Anthropic's Claude could remain the best AI coding tool

Claude Opus 4.5 achieves top coding benchmarks and surpasses prior models and humans on engineering tests while improving agentic, research, and office-task performance.
#windows
fromZDNET
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new

fromZDNET
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new

fromComputerworld
6 days ago

Singin' the Agentic Windows blues

Once upon a time, when you ran Windows on your desktop, it was your desktop. Oh, the IT department might have called the shots on how much you could do with it, but you could write what you needed to, and it was all kept nicely on your PC or your choice of network drive. Those days are long gone.
Software development
UK politics
fromBusiness Insider
6 days ago

Rishi Sunak shares advice for his 2 teenage daughters entering the AI job market

Master AI literacy while cultivating human skills like empathy and critical thinking; prepare to manage autonomous AI agents to remain relevant in the evolving job market.
#agentic-ai
fromWRAL.com
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

What does 'agentic' AI mean? Tech's newest buzzword is a mix of marketing fluff and real promise

fromWRAL.com
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

What does 'agentic' AI mean? Tech's newest buzzword is a mix of marketing fluff and real promise

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fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Workday acquires Pipedream, and 3,000 integrations with it

Workday's acquisition of Pipedream enables secure, compliant AI-agent integration with thousands of external business applications via 3,000 connectors and extensive prebuilt workflows.
UX design
fromMedium
1 week ago

How to re-use old User Research: the weakness many organizations face

Connecting archived user research to an AI agent creates a searchable second brain that surfaces answers stakeholders need, complementing (not replacing) customer conversations.
#windows-11
fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft is turning Windows into an 'agentic OS,' starting with the taskbar

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

Microsoft is turning Windows into an 'agentic OS,' starting with the taskbar

fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Microsoft introduces Fabric IQ: a step towards an intelligence platform

The system combines an ontology model, semantic models, and AI agents to convert business data into real-time decision-making. According to Microsoft, organizations are drowning in data without understanding the semantics. For example, an airline does not think in terms of tables and schedules, but in terms of flights, passengers, and delays. However, that meaning lives in people's minds. Teams use their own definitions and reports. AI systems can read data, but they lack the business context to make reliable decisions.
Artificial intelligence
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fromZDNET
1 week ago

Microsoft's new AI agents create your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint projects now

Microsoft released AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that generate documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from prompts using user and web data.
Tech industry
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Microsoft Agent 365 lets businesses manage AI agents like they do people

Microsoft introduces Agent 365 to let businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents like human workers with centralized control, security, and real-time monitoring.
#amazon
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

Salesforce completes billion-dollar acquisition of Informatica

Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Informatica. The CRM provider paid more than $8 billion (€6.9 billion) for the data management company. The acquisition is intended to lay the foundation for reliable AI agents within the Salesforce ecosystem. The completion brings Informatica's data catalog, integration tools, and governance services to the Salesforce platform. CEO Marc Benioff emphasizes the importance of this step: "You have to get your data right to get your AI right. Data and context is the true fuel of Agentforce."
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fromZDNET
1 week ago

Struggling to track AI agents? This open-source tool gives you a single source of truth

Solo.io donated Agentregistry to CNCF to provide an open-source centralized registry for discovering, validating, and operationalizing AI agents and Agent Skills.
Artificial intelligence
fromDigiday
1 week ago

The 'hot dog vs. sandwich' problem in AI advertising

Ad Context Protocol (AdCP) creates a standardized language and guardrails for AI agents operating in programmatic advertising to ensure safer, transparent decision-making.
Software development
fromTechzine Global
1 week ago

AWS launches AI agents for cloud software migrations

AWS launched the Professional Services Delivery Agent to automate legacy software migration, generating proposals, code, and adjusting dependencies to dramatically shorten project timelines.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Anthropic warns of AI-driven hacking campaign linked to China

Artificial intelligence was used to largely automate a hacking campaign that Anthropic disrupted, with the operation linked to the Chinese government and targeting about 30 individuals.
JavaScript
fromSubstack
1 week ago

Friday Links #32: Fresh JavaScript Trends & Tools

GPT-5.1 enhances long-context code reasoning and patch generation, integrates into Codex and IDEs, improves benchmark performance, and introduces 24-hour prompt caching.
Marketing tech
fromMarTech
2 weeks ago

Hightouch enters the fray for agentic AI for marketers | MarTech

Hightouch Agents connect to data warehouses and marketing stacks to automate marketers' slow workflows using a marketing context layer for precise, purpose-built insights.
Artificial intelligence
fromMcKinsey & Company
3 weeks ago

The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation

Most organizations remain in experimentation, with widespread AI use but limited enterprise-level impact and uneven progress toward scaling and workflow integration.
Marketing tech
fromDigiday
2 weeks ago

Where agencies add value in Amazon's AI agent-led ad system

Amazon is unifying DSP and Sponsored Ads into a single, AI-driven Campaign Manager that automates planning, buying, targeting, and creative for advertisers.
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
2 weeks ago

Bayer Backs Innovid's Move To Make AI Agents Work Better Together | AdExchanger

Open orchestration and interoperable AI agents streamline advertising by reducing manual work, breaking system silos, and enforcing governance and simplicity.
fromAlleywatch
2 weeks ago

Avallon Raises $4.6M to Automate Insurance Claims Operations with AI Agents

The US insurance industry faces a compounding crisis: the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects nearly 400,000 workers will leave through attrition by 2026, while claim volumes continue rising and operational complexity deepens. This staffing shortage hits third-party administrators particularly hard, as TPAs depend entirely on adjuster capacity to process claims, coordinate repairs, and manage the full lifecycle from intake to resolution.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Amazon sues AI startup over browser's automated shopping and buying feature

Amazon sued a prominent artificial intelligence startup on Tuesday over a shopping feature in the company's browser, which can automate placing orders for users. Amazon accused Perplexity AI of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing. Perplexity's misconduct must end, Amazon's lawyers wrote. Perplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity's trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful.
Artificial intelligence
Gadgets
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

Google's AI mode agents can snag event tickets for you now - here's how

Google's AI Mode agents can book event tickets and beauty/wellness appointments via Search Labs, with higher limits for AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.
Careers
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

KPMG's new CEO joined as an intern 33 years ago. Now he wants to lure Gen Z back with a new office outfitted with moody lounges and a barista bar | Fortune

KPMG transformed from manual entry-level tasks to AI-enabled consulting, training juniors as managers of AI agents and investing in modern headquarters to attract talent.
Artificial intelligence
fromZDNET
3 weeks ago

AI agents are only as good as the data they're given, and that's a big issue for businesses

63% of business leaders say their organizations are very data-driven, yet many struggle to deliver insights and unlock value from unstructured data amid AI shifts.
fromDigiday
3 weeks ago

Before AI can think for Immediate Media, it needs clean data to think with

That work started about a year ago when Lamaa and his team began pulling together and standardizing its data sources into a single customer data platform. It's no small task for a company that sits on everything from subscription and audience data to e-commerce signals. Think of it as building the brain that will eventually power Immediate Media's wider AI ambitions.
Data science
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
3 weeks ago

DoubleVerify Introduces DV AI Verification to Identify & Manage Agent Interactions & Avoid AI Slop

DoubleVerify launched DV AI Verificationâ„¢ to help advertisers identify and manage AI agent interactions and reduce low-quality AI-generated content's impact on brand suitability and ROI.
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Inside Marc Benioff's big bet on generative AI

Last fall, Salesforce debuted an AI agent so remarkably human-like it seemed like a vision from the future. In a sleek demo, the company showed how luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue was using Salesforce's new flagship AI software Agentforce to create "Sophie," a charming, patient customer service representative. A Salesforce executive dialed a Saks hotline, the chipper-voiced Sophie picked up, and then deftly recommended a sweater based on his order history and talked through shipping options.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Cohere's chief AI officer says AI agents come with a big security risk

AI agents can impersonate real entities, creating security risks such as infiltrating banking systems and requiring standards, rigorous testing, and defensive measures.
E-Commerce
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

How agentic AI will change commerce as we know it | Fortune

Agentic commerce will deploy AI agents that act on behalf of shoppers to discover, compare, negotiate, and purchase products, transforming retail interactions and merchant strategies.
fromTechCrunch
4 weeks ago

Mbodi will show how it can train a robot using AI agents at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Mbodi wants to make training robots easier and quicker with the help of AI agents. The company will be showcasing this tech as one of the Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. New York-based Mbodi built a cloud-to-edge system, a hybrid computing system using both cloud and local compute, that is designed to integrate into existing robotic tech stacks. The software relies on a multitude of AI agents that communicate with each other to gather the needed information to help a robot learn a task faster.
Startup companies
Marketing tech
fromDigiday
4 weeks ago

News Corp-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun is building an AI agent for its programmatic business

The Sun is developing an in-house AI agent to communicate with buy-side agents for programmatic advertising to remain competitive as agentic media buying grows.
fromExchangewire
3 weeks ago

Agentic Ad Tech: Writing the Rules

When AI is a bubble, and talking about AI being a bubble is a bubble ... what do you do? Right, you start talking about AI agents. And AI... agentic... what does it matter? Once you put out a new message, you quickly find a small group of people most likely to respond. You harvest that group fast, performance drops, you change the message, find a new cohort, repeat.
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