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Cursor and Notion AI limit their free AI tiers by query count rather than by a trial period. The reason is simple: every query incurs real inference costs. Source: startupfortune.com
AWS has released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source 2B-parameter AI model that selects agent actions in under 100 milliseconds. The release could speed up responsiveness in AI agent systems. Source: shattered.io
The team's ITSM platform never lacked data, but making sense of it and deciding next steps was harder. Building an AI agent for ServiceNow revealed that the actual problems were more focused than the original roadmap assumed. Source: venturebeat.com
The biggest opportunities for AI agents lie not in maximizing autonomy but in balancing reliability, accountability and control. That balance, the article argues, is what determines real-world success. Source: gartner.com
OpenAI told New South Wales on October 1 that one of its AI models had retrieved non-public fire statistics back in June. The state had been unaware of the incident for months. Source: yahoo.com
Meta's new AI agent, Muse, is built to do more than answer questions: the company says it can take actions on a user's behalf. Reporting from Philadelphia notes that privacy concerns around the tool remain unresolved. Source: 6abc.com
Physicians and researchers are calling for task-specific permissions, risk-based review and clear stop rules. They also want evidence from real clinical settings before AI agents are given more autonomy. Source: healthcareitnews.com
PayNearMe has introduced an AI Servicing and Collections Agent that handles inbound and outbound customer interactions. It covers calls, texts and payment scheduling. Source: finovate.com
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse, while Shopify has not. Experts from Bain and CI&T discuss what agentic AI means for retailers and whether shoppers trust it yet. Source: retailtouchpoints.com
Following the debut of Muse for personal users, Meta is now offering its AI agent to small businesses. The goal is to help them handle everyday tasks. Source: retaildive.com
Nvidia launched an AI agent safety platform with more than 100 participants, including Palo Alto and CrowdStrike. Anthropic's IPO filing risk warning has also fueled the AI safety debate, and analysts see upside for cybersecurity spending. Source: tradingview.com
Strands Decider 2B is a small open-source model that handles an AI agent's routine decisions so the main LLM doesn't have to. AWS created it for the Strands agent framework. Source: theaieconomy.substack.com
IT leaders report budget relief from agentic AI in IT support, coding and cloud optimization. Hidden costs and human factors, however, may limit how large the savings turn out to be. Source: cio.com
Neptune Insurance Holdings (NYSE: NP), the largest private flood insurer in the US, highlighted a new approach to flood insurance built for AI agents. Source: businesswire.com
Agentic AI is gaining acceptance as a shopping tool, but consumers hold clear preferences about how it should be used. They also have views on which services it should offer. Source: chainstoreage.com
CGI Federal and Amazon Web Services have assembled a catalog of AI agents aimed at federal agencies. The agents cover use cases such as cyber defense, fraud detection and benefits processing. Source: executivebiz.com
AI agents have grown from experimental chatbots into practical systems that plan tasks, use tools and complete multi-step workflows. The guide walks through creating a first autonomous agent. Source: bitcoinfoundation.org
An AI agent made a small mistake in drug research and development, then carried on regardless. The case raises a key question for pharma: what happens when a wrong answer goes unchecked as AI gains autonomy? Source: pharmavoice.com
Video-generation startup Runway is pushing further into advertising with a new AI agent. It can produce ad variations and analyze how they perform across platforms. Source: adweek.com
Instinct, a viral AI agent, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round that values it at $10 billion. The company says the money will help bring Instinct to more people and advance its vision of personal AI. Source: techcrunch.com