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🤖 AI Agents & Automation

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

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Launchautonomous AI governance/finance

Responsible AI Institute Launches TrustX for Finance to Bring Verifiable Trust to Autonomous AI in Financial Services

New Autonomous Finance Initiative will help financial institutions classify, control, and verify autonomous AI systems before production deployment. prnewswire.com

Opinionagentic architecture/tool use

The Protocol That Cleaned Up Our Agent Architecture

A few weeks ago someone from the data team asked whether we could update the database schema which was being populated by one of the tools of our complex... towardsdatascience.com

NewsAI agent identity security/funding

NewCore launches with $66M to secure human and AI agent identities

NewCore has emerged from stealth with $66 million in funding and a new identity security platform built for enterprises managing human users, machines,... msspalert.com

Opinionagentic AI security

Agentic AI Security in 2026: What to Know

Organizations are rapidly deploying autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents that can make decisions, execute tasks and interact directly with systems... blog.knowbe4.com

NewsAI agent governance/enterprise

85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them.

Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research... venturebeat.com

Opinionagentic AI accountability/policy

Agentic AI Part II: Who is Responsible for the Actions of an AI Agent? (via Passle)

In a prior blog post, “Agentic AI Part I: What It Is and Who's Responsible When It Acts," we introduced this multi-part series on agentic AI, delved int... technologylaw.fkks.com

Newsagentic AI evaluation/debugging

AI Agent Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis with Strands Evals

When your AI agent fails in production, knowing that it failed is only the beginning. The harder question is why it failed and what to fix. aws.amazon.com

Launchagentic workflows / product launch

Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT

Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely. openai.com

NewsAI agent security / tool-call attacks

AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Burning Cash: Tool-Call Attack Inflates Costs Up to 658x

Most AI security worries about what an agent might leak or do wrong. A newer class of attack ignores all of that. It does not steal your data or break your... techtimes.com

Opinionenterprise agent cost / FinOps

Agentic AI Enterprise Token Cost

Agentic AI is changing enterprise costs. Learn the total cost of agentic AI, from infrastructure and governance to change, risk and Agent FinOps. ey.com

Newsenterprise AI agent adoption / Korea

Korea Inc. races to put AI agent on every desk

Samsung, SK, LG accelerate workplace use of generative AI after years of caution over technology leaks. SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks during the... koreaherald.com

Opinionagentic AI governance

From generative AI to agentic AI: Why context, controls and accountability now matter more than speed

As organisations move from generative AI to agents, success will depend on pairing greater autonomy with strong data context, governance and oversight,... businesstimes.com.sg

Opinionenterprise agentic AI ROI

Beyond "agent washing": how to build AI systems that actually deliver ROI

Dell Technologies CTO and CAIO explains where enterprise AI is heading. itpro.com

Newsenterprise AI agent strategy

Chey Tae-won Urges SK's Full-Speed AI Transformation with 'One Person, One Agent'

Chairman emphasizes operational improvement through AI agents and SK's full-stack capabilities in memory, data centers, and energy for AI era leadership. chosun.com

Newsagentic commerce/consumer adoption

UAE emerges as one of the world’s most receptive markets for AI-powered shopping

A study showed that 79% of UAE consumers are comfortable allowing an AI agent to complete purchases on their behalf. fastcompanyme.com

Researchagent inference efficiency

Compute Once: Unlocking AI Agent Efficiency

A radical proposal to precompute LLM KV caches, slashing inference costs by up to 50x and enabling a new compute-efficient AI agent paradigm. startuphub.ai

NewsAI agent policy/rights concerns

China’s new AI agent risks trapping Western tech in rights abuses

Beijing is pouring $162 million into an AI tool designed to spread Xi Jinping Thought, and analysts warn foreign technology could get caught in the... cryptobriefing.com

Newsautonomous agent failures/risks

AI Agent Rekts Dev on Bogus Scan, Leaves Them Begging for Crypto Donations

A hobbyist network handed an autonomous agent a masterclass in why you don't give AI a credit card and a deadline. decrypt.co

Newson-chain AI agent frameworks

The Solana Agent Kit and the Rise of Programmable On-Chain AI

AI and crypto intersect with the rise of programmable agent frameworks that run natively against blockchain infrastructure. flaglerlive.com

Researchagentic AI benchmarking

NVIDIA Achieves Leading Agentic Coding Performance on First Agentic AI Benchmark | NVIDIA Technical Blog

AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how… developer.nvidia.com