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🤖 AI Agents & Automation

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

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Importance:Opinionagentic systems adoption

Navan CTO's bullish AI take: 'Do not use LLMs; use agentic systems'

In an interview at the recent Momentum AI conference, Ilan Twig said his CXO peers must embrace agentic technology. 'There's no other way.' Source: informationweek.com

Importance:Newsagent use cases

17 Leaders Share AI Agent Use Cases That Made Life Better

Forget just using agentic AI for basic drafting and proofreading. Source: inc.com

Importance:Launchdomain-specific AI agent

AI agent aims to reshape how builders screen sites, spot deal risk

Acres introduced an AI agent aimed at reducing the time it takes builder land teams to evaluate zoning and entitlement constraints. The tool compiles parcel... Source: housingwire.com

Importance:Launchagentic payments / AWS Bedrock AgentCore

Agents that transact: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe

We're in the midst of a fundamental shift in how software gets built and used. AI agents are moving beyond assistants that wait for instructions. Source: aws.amazon.com

Importance:Newsagentic payments / AWS Bedrock

AWS Hands AI Agents a Wallet

AWS unveils AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe, letting AI agents pay for APIs, MCP servers, and content mid-task. In preview today on Bedrock. Source: theaieconomy.substack.com

Importance:Newsagentic payments / AWS Bedrock

AWS adds agentic payment features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted a set of features that artificial intelligence agents can use to make purchases. The capabilities are available in... Source: siliconangle.com

Importance:Researchagent security / prompt injection

When prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks

New research exposes how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can lead to remote code execution. Learn how these vulnerabilities work, what's impacted,... Source: microsoft.com

Importance:NewsAI agent / healthcare

Hims & Hers launches AI agent for lab results

The AI agent will assess patients' biomarkers from lab tests, identifying concerning patterns and providing insights into users' health. Source: techtarget.com

Importance:NewsAI agent / healthcare

Hims & Hers debuts its first AI care agent to interpret biomarker lab results

Hims & Hers launched an artificial intelligence agent embedded in its platform to help interpret biomarker lab results and provide users personalized... Source: fiercehealthcare.com

Importance:NewsAI shopping agents / consumer risk

You Should Remember This Warning When Using An AI Shopping Agent

Agentic AI looks to be a promising innovation coming to shopping very soon, but one retailer has updated its terms of service in a distressing way. Source: slashgear.com

Importance:NewsMeta AI agent plans

Meta's AI agent plans reportedly include an OpenClaw competitor that can shop on Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg has said he wants to make AI agents more accessible. Source: engadget.com

Importance:Newscomputer use efficiency / token cost

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

For AI agents, seeing is expensive. Source: theregister.com

Importance:Launchagentic developer tools

ServiceNow Build Agent now works inside every major AI coding tool, governed by default

Build Agent in ServiceNow Studio lets any developer build production-ready apps and AI agents using natural language prompts Developers can now build from... Source: newsroom.servicenow.com

Importance:Launchagent benchmarking

Introducing Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark

Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark is an open-source benchmark built to evaluate and improve agent capabilities for supporting legal work. Source: harvey.ai

Importance:Researchagentic behavior validation

Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic

How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis. Source: github.blog

Importance:ResearchAI agent management

Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees

As organizations push to accelerate AI adoption, many leaders are considering a simple idea: Stop treating AI as a tool and start treating it as an employee... Source: hbr.org

Importance:Opinionagentic software development lifecycle

Agentic SDLC: What Changes When Agents Run Development

The agentic SDLC is a software development lifecycle organized around autonomous AI task execution because agents can complete multi-step development work... Source: augmentcode.com

Importance:Newsconsumer AI agents

Google Is Building an AI Agent That Could Be Its Answer to OpenClaw

Google is building a new AI "personal agent" for Gemini that can take actions on the user's behalf, Business Insider has learned. Source: businessinsider.com

Importance:Newsagent security and sandboxing

AWS open sources Trusted Remote Execution to control what AI agents touch

Amazon's Trusted Remote Execution is an open source runtime that gates every system call from scripts and AI agents with Cedar policy. Source: helpnetsecurity.com

Importance:Launchagent templates for industry

Agents for financial services and insurance

We're releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files,... Source: anthropic.com