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Importance:NewsAI agent overview/guidance

Call your AI agent

AI agent systems are now being built on top of large language models, and they can conduct autonomous analyses. Choosing among the offerings takes a balance... Source: nature.com

Importance:Policyagentic AI safety guidance

US government, allies publish guidance on how to safely deploy AI agents

Cybersecurity agencies from the U.S. and allies issued a joint warning Friday on the risks of "agentic AI." The new guidance urges critical infrastructure... Source: cyberscoop.com

Importance:NewsAI agent security risks

Company Database Deleted by AI Agent: What Security Leaders Need to Know

Nine seconds — that's how long it took for an AI agent to delete a company's production database and volume-level backups. The agent's confession admits to... Source: securitymagazine.com

Importance:NewsMicrosoft Copilot adoption

Microsoft 365 Copilot hits 20 million paid seats

Context from data and AI agent activity spins a flywheel that generates still more context, Microsoft CEO said. Source: nojitter.com

Importance:NewsAI agent security/infrastructure

Does Your AI Agent Need a VPN? The Company Behind Norton and Avast Thinks So

You might use a VPN yourself, but have you considered giving one to your AI agent? It might be more important than you think. Source: cnet.com

Importance:Newsagentic AI growth trends

Gartner sees untamed growth in agentic AI

The research firm expects the number of agents in use per company to blow up from 15 in 2025 to as many as 150000 per company by 2028. Source: computerworld.com

Importance:NewsAI agent market landscape

State of AI Agent Builders 2026: What 770 Verified G2 Reviews and 7 Leading Vendors Reveal

G2's 2026 AI agent builders report shows strong buyer value, high satisfaction, and highlights orchestration and integration as critical to success. Source: learn.g2.com

Importance:Opinionagentic AI risk/hallucination

Agentic Systems Add New Layer of AI Hallucination Risk in Legal Work

Agentic AI systems can suffer both familiar and novel forms of hallucination, requiring clear safeguards to avoid damaging issues. Source: law.com

Importance:Newsagentic AI enterprise/government

Workday Government has Trump’s HR overhaul in mind with coming agentic AI tool

The AI agent has a target launch of March 2027 and comes as the company is expanding its federal business. Source: fedscoop.com

Importance:NewsAI agent failure/risk

'Rogue' AI agent from Cursor goes haywire, deletes tech company's database

A founder detailed how an AI agent from Cursor destroyed much of his company's production data in a recent social media post. Source: 6abc.com

Importance:NewsAI agent safety/failure

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company's entire production database and its backups, according to its founder. Source: theguardian.com

Importance:NewsAI agent safety/failure

'Rogue' AI agent goes haywire at tech company, CEO says he's still 'bullish' on AI

A founder detailed how an AI agent destroyed much of his company's production data in a recent social media post. Source: goodmorningamerica.com

Importance:NewsAI agent safety/failure

'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses

An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming. Source: livescience.com

Importance:NewsAI platform integrations

Forrester Puts Its Research Inside Microsoft Copilot, But Can It Stay Vendor-Neutral?

Forrester launched an AI agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot to surface research in workflows. The move boosts speed, but raises neutrality concerns. Source: cxtoday.com

Importance:Opinionagentic AI optimization

Agentic AI: How to Save on Tokens

It's not hard to realize that working with AI in production is pretty expensive. We all know this and we know most vendors are working pretty hard to figure... Source: towardsdatascience.com

Importance:Researchagentic AI tooling/cloud

Building agentic AI for Amazon RDS for SQL Server with Strands and AgentCore

by Sudhir Amin on 29 APR 2026 in Advanced (300), Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, RDS for SQL Server, Strands Agents, Technical How-to Permalink Comments Share. Source: aws.amazon.com

Importance:Newsagentic AI enterprise integration

How Equinix is Redefining Enterprise Integrations with Agentic AI in Oracle Integration Cloud

Ajay Narayan, Senior Manager, Equinix. Enterprise users do not think in APIs, integrations, orchestration logic, or backend systems. Source: blogs.oracle.com

Importance:Newsenterprise AI agents

Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies

Bloomberg's CTO Shawn Edwards says data, evaluations, and cost discipline were all key to making "AskB" work. Source: fortune.com

Importance:LaunchSAS Viya MCP Server

SAS opens its analytics engine to Claude, Copilot and any AI agent with Viya MCP Server

SAS bets on AI governance and domain expertise with new Viya MCP Server, exposing analytics as tools any AI agent can call across enterprises. Source: thenewstack.io

Importance:LaunchAI agent for SMB

New Square AI Agent Automates Daily Tasks for Main Street Sellers

Square is now offering an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “intelligent business agent” built into Square Dashboard to a select group of sellers in open... Source: pymnts.com