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Autonomous AI agents, agentic workflows, tool use, computer use, and multi-agent systems.

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Newsenterprise agents

OpenAI unveils long-awaited “super app” as rivalry with Anthropic intensifies

By Deepa Seetharaman and Juby Babu July 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI showcased a new AI agent on Thursday meant to help white-collar workers access the power of... kfgo.com

Launchfoundation models

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work. openai.com

Newsfunding

AI agent startup Lyzr reportedly raising $100M at $500M valuation

Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. siliconangle.com

Launchfoundation models

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

Today, we're excited to introduce Muse Spark 1.1, the latest model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and a significant upgrade from Muse Spark. ai.meta.com

Newsdevelopment tools

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch Details AI Agent Strategy as Coding and Internal Automation Emerge as Key Use Cases

Vercel, whose cloud infrastructure supports 6 million deployments daily, with roughly half triggered by coding agents and more than 1 trillion tokens. theaiinsider.tech

Launchpersonal assistants

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. openai.com

Newsgovernance

From hidden AI to governed AI: Closing the visibility gap with watsonx.governance

The new AI Asset Discovery capability in watsonx.governance enables organizations to identify unmanaged AI agents, tools, MCP servers and foundation models... ibm.com

Newscontact center applications

What AI virtual agents are actually delivering for contact centers in 2026

AI virtual agents are delivering real results, but only when deployed right. See what the data says about ROI, containment rates, and what separates... zoom.com

Newssecurity threats

JADEPUFFER: First Fully Autonomous AI Ransomware Attack

Sysdig documented JADEPUFFER, the first ransomware attack run entirely by an AI agent, which encrypted 1342 database records and left an unrecoverable... letsdatascience.com

Researchscientific applications

Managing autonomous materials labs with multi-agent AI and its implications for the science of science

Self-driving lab systems (aka, autonomous experimentation) accelerate research - letting scientists learn faster, spend less resources, and fail smarter in... nature.com

Launchperformance optimization

Create a LangChain Deep Agents Harness Profile for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra to Improve Performance

Agentic systems often face a trade-off between accuracy and cost. The highest-performing proprietary frontier models and harnesses provide top accuracy but... developer.nvidia.com

Opiniongovernance

Bridging the governance gap in an Agentic AI era

AI governance gap is an opportunity for partners who can help customers move from experimentation to controlled scale. channele2e.com

Launchmulti-platform deployment

Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile as enterprise use broadens

The company said business operations account for a third of Claude Cowork usage, prompting it to extend the AI agent beyond desktop use and enable users to... infoworld.com

Opinionworkflow implementation

Redesign Work Before You Add More AI Agents

While working on Agentic AI workflow enablement across enterprise teams, I kept seeing the same problem. Teams told me they were excited about AI. towardsdatascience.com

Opinionfinancial applications

ROI of Implementing AI Agents in Finance: How Finance Teams Measure Value

Learn how to calculate ROI for AI agents in finance: formulas, benchmarks, and real examples showing ROI up to 240% from AP automation and fraud detection. corporatefinanceinstitute.com

Launchsecurity

Codenotary launches AI security platform that learns from AI agent behavior

Codenotary's AgentMon 3 introduces adaptive runtime security policies that learn from AI agent behavior and threats. helpnetsecurity.com

ResearchAI hardware

NVIDIA Vera CPU Boosts AI Factory Throughput to Accelerate Agentic Workloads | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Agentic systems turn model reasoning into action through multi-step workflows that combine inference, tool use, code execution, retrieval, orchestration… developer.nvidia.com

Launchmulti-agent systems

Introducing Oracle Autonomous AI Database A2A Server for Governed Multi-Agent Systems

Oracle is announcing Oracle Autonomous AI Database Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Server, a fully managed, multi-tenant capability embedded directly in Oracle... blogs.oracle.com

NewsAI funding

Norm Ai nabs $120M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to the law

Nomos Ai Inc., a company building a platform to embed legal operations into artificial intelligence agents, today announced it has raised $120 million in... siliconangle.com

Opinionagentic workflows

Agentic GTM, explained: What changes when sales agents run the workflow

Apollo reports on the rise of agentic AI, highlighting its distinction from standard AI tools, current adoption rates, and the significant revenue potential... qcherald.com