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🤖 AI Agents & Automation

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

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LaunchAI agent tool use/payments

Crossmint Launches New Secure API for AI Agent Card Payments

New infrastructure lets US Visa cardholders pay via AI agents while keeping credentials tokenised, reducing fraud risk and ensuring PCI-compliant security. fintechmagazine.com

NewsAI agent security

Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar

AI agent security lags capability. A new report scores 100 production agents and finds 98% carry the lethal trifecta of attack conditions. helpnetsecurity.com

Newsconsumer AI agents

Meta Looks to Charge Up to $200 a Month for Planned ‘Hatch’ AI Agent

Meta Platformsis considering charging up to $200 a month for its planned consumer version of the OpenClaw AI agent tool, according to internal documents,... theinformation.com

Newsenterprise AI agents

Meta is trying to sell AI agents to businesses in latest effort to diversify away from ads

Meta is unveiling an AI agent for businesses that will be part of a subscription under the Meta One brand, which was introduced last week. Companies can use... cnbc.com

Newsenterprise AI agents

Meta’s AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally

WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage. techcrunch.com

Newsenterprise AI agents

Meta launches business AI agent to expand enterprise services globally

Meta launches a new AI business agent to help companies automate operations across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, targeting the enterprise AI market. journalrecord.com

Opinionagentic autonomy limits

What AI Agents Should Never Do on Their Own

All the content about agents focuses on what they can do. Autonomy gets framed as the goal: give them tools, give them access, let them run. towardsdatascience.com

NewsAI agent security

Protecting SaaS AI Agents with Cisco AI Defense and AppOmni

Enterprise AI agents are no longer experimental. Organizations are deploying agents inside ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, and other SaaS platforms to handle... blogs.cisco.com

Newsretail AI agents

Amazon applies AI shopping tech to customer retailer agents with AWS

Amazon is now bringing some of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology powering its new shopping agent to other retailers, starting with Kate Spade New... digitalcommerce360.com

Newsagent policy and control

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files. techcrunch.com

Launchpersonal AI agent

Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent

Microsoft introduces a new, always-on personal agent, Microsoft Scout, integrated across the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day. microsoft.com

Launchenterprise agent builder

Agent Builder in Cloud Control Studio: A new way to extend and customize Cisco Cloud Control

Today at Cisco Live, we are announcing Agent Builder in Cisco Cloud Control Studio, a new way to customize and extend Cisco Cloud Control with AI agents. blogs.cisco.com

Newsagent development platforms

Sema4.ai's autonomous agent building platform gets simpler to use, adds deeper business context and more

Sema4.ai Inc. a startup that provides tools for building and managing artificial intelligence agents, has announced a massive revamp of its platform,... siliconangle.com

Launchlocal AI agents

Build Personal AI Agents on Windows PCs with New Tools from Microsoft and NVIDIA

AI agents are changing how you interact with your PC. Creators, developers, and AI enthusiasts are already using these agents extensively to assist with... developer.nvidia.com

Newsagentic commerce

Robinhood unveiled an agentic credit card. Should you trust AI to make purchases?

You may already use AI to automate some tasks at work or help solve problems. Now, Robinhood wants you to incorporate AI into your financial plan. finance.yahoo.com

Opinionagent security

Why the location of your AI agent is a security decision

by Gabriel Fuentes and Daniel O. Deter on 02 JUN 2026 in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elastic Container Service,... aws.amazon.com

Newsdomain-specific agentic AI

Genomics adds agentic AI to Mystra platform, supercharging drug discovery

Mystra AI leverages the "world's largest and most diverse" genotype-phenotype database to help predict which drug candidates will succeed. firstwordpharma.com

Launchagent-to-merchant payments

Snaplii's Agent-to-Merchant Payment Skill Creates Safe AI-Powered Commerce System

New functionality creates North America's first real-world, truly usable system that allows AI agents to shop and pay for purchases at 500 brands while... newswire.com

Newsconsumer AI agent deployment at scale

Tencent moves closer to launching AI agent for WeChat’s 1.4bn Chinese users

Tencent is moving closer to launching an embedded AI agent for WeChat, the ubiquitous app used by China's 1.4bn people for everything from messaging and... ft.com

Newsautonomous AI agents partnerships

NVIDIA Partners with Software Leaders to Build Secure, Autonomous AI Agents - AIwire

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1, 2026 — NVIDIA today announced new software, open source models and partnerships with the world's leading software platform providers... hpcwire.com