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🤖 AI Agents & Automation

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

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Newsagentic commerce infrastructure

Eye on Agentic Commerce: Experian’s Tool for Verifying Consumer, Agent Link; Kite’s Wallet Service for AI Agents

As payments companies, merchants, and consumers prepare for the growing use of artificial-intelligence agents in commerce, vendors, too, are getting ready... digitaltransactions.net

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. computerworld.com

LaunchAI agent payments/tool use

Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too

Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows. techcrunch.com

Researchtool use optimization

Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. venturebeat.com

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. law.com

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. fedscoop.com

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. 6abc.com

Researchdomain-specific AI agents

AgentClinic puts medical AI through a more realistic diagnostic test

A new benchmark shows that passing medical exams is not enough; clinical AI agents must gather information, handle uncertainty, use tools, interpret images,... news-medical.net

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. learn.g2.com

Launchagentic model deployment

OpenAI GPT-5.5 + Codex, now available and fully-governed on Databricks

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's strongest frontier model for agentic enterprise work, complex document reasoning, and long-horizon coding agents. databricks.com

Launchagentic model/computer use

NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, Unifying Vision, Audio and Language for AI Agents

Best-in-class open omni-modal reasoning model delivers the highest efficiency and accuracy to power agentic workflows such as computer use,... hpcwire.com

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. theguardian.com

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. goodmorningamerica.com

NewsAI agents product strategy

Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Is Working On AI Agents For Personal And Business Use

The CEO wants to make an agent so easy even his mom can use it. engadget.com

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. blogs.oracle.com

Opinionagentic enterprise strategy

Agentic enterprise reshapes AI strategy and execution

Agentic enterprise reshapes AI strategy as autonomous systems move into real-world operations, scaling execution and redefining workflows across industries. siliconangle.com

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... towardsdatascience.com

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. livescience.com

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. aws.amazon.com

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. fortune.com