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AI agents use language models and software tools to plan tasks, write code and carry out multi-step work. Follow the latest AI agent news, coding assistants and automation frameworks, with attention to reliability, permissions and human oversight. Read the source-linked reports to understand what each system can actually do, where it still fails and what changes for developers and businesses.
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Basecompute’s Hugging Face announcement describes Superfluid as an Apache-2.0 local LLM server with interactive-request prioritisation, session recovery, multiple API and runtime options, and encrypted multi-device inference.
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FlyJets has launched JetGPT, an AI agent for finding and sharing charter flights that can also help users book flights or list spaces for resale. The key change is that it now reaches beyond chat: FlyJets says users can issue instructions across its marketplace, including setting route alerts…
Microsoft AI Watch
Microsoft is adding 30 pre-built sales, service and marketing skills to Copilot, alongside new ways to bring Dynamics 365 customer records into Teams. The bigger shift is from AI that answers questions to agents that can move customer work along, with people still reviewing some actions.
AWS AI Watch
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is being used to let AI agents pay for model inference one request at a time, with spending limits enforced by infrastructure rather than the model. AWS says startup Incarna put the system into production with inference provider BlockRun, completing the integration in three…
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AI coding tools are making it easier to build a learning management system in-house, but a quick prototype can leave an organisation with years of maintenance and security work. In a Forbes essay, learning technology executive David James argues that extending an existing platform may be wiser than…
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Enterprise AI agents can trigger workflows and act before anyone checks their output, says SAS strategist Marinela Profi. Her practical prescription is to govern the whole action chain: restrict permissions, log tool use and require approval where the consequences warrant it.
Salesforce Watch
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff says AI could turn software interfaces into something that listens, adapts and proactively surfaces useful information. His vision puts Slack, which Salesforce owns, at the centre of a bigger question: will people still go to business apps, or will AI agents become the…
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AI agents may move more of the industry’s value towards the software that gives models memory, tools and room to act, analysts told the South China Morning Post. Meta’s Muse has helped draw attention to that shift, but downloads are an early sign of interest, not proof of…
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Meta’s Muse may be the AI agent in the spotlight today, but investors are looking past the product leaderboard and betting that agent growth will boost demand for chips, memory and power. That infrastructure thesis is gaining ground, even as the winning AI brand remains anyone’s guess.
Firecrawl Watch
Firecrawl has launched Universal Scrape, adding document and web-page extraction plus data from a growing set of providers to its existing /scrape endpoint. For teams building AI agents, that could mean fewer separate integrations to maintain, which is a rather appealing change from the usual API-juggling act.
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AI coding tools are making some businesses reconsider whether to buy software or build a tailored alternative. A Forbes article reports that 32% of organisations in a McKinsey survey had passed on at least one software product or feature because they could build it in-house with agentic coding…
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Claude Opus 5.5 leads Lilt’s multilingual coding benchmark, with the company reporting a small score gain over Opus 5 and lower task costs. The results suggest language coverage and the number of steps an agent takes can matter as much as the model’s headline price.
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AI agents are moving beyond screens towards factories, power grids and other physical systems, argues Archetype AI co-founder Brandon Barbello. His case is that models able to interpret sensor data could help operators spot equipment problems before production stops, where a digital mistake can be corrected but a…
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AI agents are forcing companies to look beyond documented workflows and examine the judgement employees use when a process reaches an exception. Masa Maruyama, chief executive of Saison Technology International, argues that deciding what an agent should do means deciding which unwritten practices are worth keeping.
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Riskified has launched a service to help merchants assess the people and behaviour behind AI shopping agents, with a limited beta planned for December. The move brings fraud checks into the emerging world of assistants that can place orders and request refunds for customers.
Meta AI Watch
Meta plans to bring its Muse AI assistant into a small, character-shaped wearable called Muse Charm, due for release in December in the US, Esquire reports. The device’s cute design may make an AI agent feel less like software and more like a companion, just as it is…
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Every co-founder Dan Shipper and head of platform Willie Williams say the company’s workplace AI experiments favoured a shared agent over personal assistants that each employee had to maintain. Their account, drawn from a conversation on the Every podcast, offers a useful counterweight to the idea that every…
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Godel Technologies has launched Godel Factory, a Claude-powered engineering service that it says will run inside customers’ own technology environments. The pitch is to use AI agents for repeatable engineering work while people retain approval over architecture, security and production changes.
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Ten major AI developers have changed, or promised to change, how they handle personal data after scrutiny by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The regulator is also examining whether autonomous AI agents can follow the rules when they act with less human supervision.
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Google is introducing AISeal, a hardware-isolated vault for personal data used by AI on Android devices. The first step is protected storage for personal context; running models and agents inside the vault is a later goal, not a capability Google says is already in place.
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Google Cloud has introduced Gemini agent, a work-focused AI assistant designed to handle knowledge work, content creation and coding from one prompt box. Its notable twist is that the agent can use both Gemini and Claude models, with Google saying it plans to add more open and private…
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Argonne National Laboratory has connected an AI agent to an X-ray microscope, letting researchers ask it in natural language to inspect areas of interest. The experimental system can collect and analyse data, reconstruct images as they arrive and flag places to investigate next.
