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🤖 AI Agents & Automation

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

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OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the... Source: siliconangle.com

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Understanding AI agent behavior is the next major tech challenge

Moda co-founder Mohammad Al-Rasheed addresses the AI agent observability gap by clustering millions of conversation segments. Source: wftv.com

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Chinese AI's role in stopping rogue OpenAI agent shows cost of US guardrails

A New York startup's use of a Chinese AI model to rein in a rogue agent built with OpenAI technology is stoking fears that guradrails restricting U.S. AI... Source: reuters.com

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OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident⁠(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained an AI agent that compromised... Source: openai.com

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AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by... Source: theguardian.com

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Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case'

The asset manager argues that AI software capable of paying for things autonomously will need blockchain rails to work—and that most investors aren't... Source: finance.yahoo.com

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A clear path to a live agent grows trust in AI customer service

More than half of consumers trust AI when offered a clear path to a live agent, whereas only about one-quarter trust it when no human option is available,... Source: customerexperiencedive.com

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Manulife strengthens AI agent oversight

Insurer expands enterprise controls for AI agents as focus shifts from deploying generative AI to governing, monitoring and validating. Source: qa-financial.com

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Engineering and Governing the Agent Harness: A Technology and Policy Framework for the Runtime Layer of Agentic AI

Artificial intelligence systems are moving from single-turn text generation toward longer-running agents that can plan, call tools, use external memory and... Source: unu.edu

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Harness launches Agent DLC for developers to deploy AI agents using familiar processes and tools

Integrated software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. said today it's reinventing the development lifecycle for artificial intelligence agents so... Source: siliconangle.com

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TOLAP: Closing the data-object security gap in AI agent architectures

by Phillip Spies on 21 JUL 2026 in Amazon Athena, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),... Source: aws.amazon.com

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Your next customer is an AI agent

I have been using one AI tool for so long that it knows me. It knows my history, my habits, and the kinds of problems I need to solve each day. Source: fastcompany.com

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Building an Agentic AI Tool to Support Our Upward Mobility Initiative Dashboard

Agentic AI tools—systems that can take autonomous action and execute multistep workflows independently of user inputs—offer a new way for our team at the... Source: urban.org

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AI agent helps prepare synchrotron X-ray experimental measurements, paving the way for autonomous operation

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are now used daily by many people worldwide, both for professional and personal purposes. Over the past decades,... Source: phys.org

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Agent Evaluation: How to Measure AI Agent Reliability

Learn how to evaluate AI agents with metrics for reliability, safety, trajectory, and performance across real enterprise workflows. Source: snowflake.com

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Agentic AI in biomedical research: What is it and can it expedite science?

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate,... Source: med.stanford.edu

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Chinese models are on track to win the agentic AI price war

Chinese AI labs have stunned the world, again. In the space of about a month, Chinese AI start-up labs Z.ai and Moonshot have each launched a model that is... Source: aspistrategist.org.au

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Introducing the Amazon GuardDuty investigation agent: on-demand AI-powered threat assessment

by Allan Holmes on 20 JUL 2026 in Amazon GuardDuty, Intermediate (200), Security, Identity, & Compliance, Technical How-to Permalink Comments Share. Source: aws.amazon.com

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AI-Driven Cyberattack Compromises Hugging Face Production Infrastructure via Autonomous Agent: Incident Analysis and Mitigation Strategies

Executive SummaryOn July 16, 2026, Hugging Face, the world's largest AI model repository, publicly disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure. Source: rescana.com

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NVIDIA Agent Toolkit Expands With New Omniverse Libraries, Putting AI Agents to Work Building Simulation-Ready Worlds

NVIDIA today announced that NVIDIA Agent Toolkit now includes NVIDIA Omniverse™ libraries — a collection of software components that give AI agents tools... Source: nvidianews.nvidia.com