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Why giving AI agents more compute isn't enough—and what Meta proposes instead
AI agents often struggle to assess their own progress and decide what to do next. They can waste compute resources following failed approaches, or they might overlook promising results or stop before completing a task.
VentureBeat AI6 min readGoogle’s workplace agent is out, but questions abound
The agent can use enterprise business context for knowledge work. However, questions about cost and integration with other tools could be difficult for enterprises.
AI Business5 min readLogitech CEO Hanneke Faber on AI Agents & The Great Tech Divide
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the findings of the company's CTRL Tomorrow study on how tech impacts its users, finding opportunity in the AI era, and why design-led hardware still has a major role to play.
Bloomberg Technology1 min readInstinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website.
The Verge - AI8 min readBeyond TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The Side Events, Parties & Networking You Can’t Miss
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is just the beginning. From exclusive networking events and startup showcases to happy hours, dinners, and after-hours meetups, discover what’s happening across San Francisco during Disrupt Week, October 10–16.
TechCrunch12 min readIBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
Enterprise AI orchestration must account for agents working across the data, applications and infrastructure businesses already use. As organizations move beyond experiments, running those systems consistently brings questions of access, oversight and operational control into sharper focus.
SiliconANGLE5 min readOpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
I’m not going to call the bursting of artificial intelligence bubble yet, not with all that money still pouring into every hardware and software company with AI in their pitch decks. But we got a little taste this week.
SiliconANGLE8 min read18 insights from SailPoint’s Navigate event: Enterprises race to bring identity security for AI agents up to machine speed
AI agents have made identity the front line of enterprise security. Agents now number in the thousands. They pick up access nobody meant to give them, and when they’re blocked partway through a task, they look for another way in.
SiliconANGLE9 min readCoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next.
SiliconANGLE4 min readGPT-6.1 Ultrafast ⚡, Gemini universal agent 🤖, speculative decoding 🧠
Enterprise search used to be a list of links. Now it's a list of actions (Sponsor)
TLDR AI5 min readCan TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM?
How a decision-first model can catch risky tool calls before they turn into real-world actions The post Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Towards Data Science11 min readAI agents like Muse can shop for you. Here's what that means for retail stocks
For Amazon, Costco, and TJX, the rise of AI shopping agents presents challenges — and some surprising advantages.
CNBC — Technology1 min readWhere Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents?
The cost of control The post Where Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Towards Data Science11 min readBuild Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call
AI Agents for Beginners, Part 1 The post Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Towards Data Science14 min readStop Using AI. Start Hiring It.
AI agents can now write more code than any of us can read. That changed how I think about AI. The post Stop Using AI. Start Hiring It. appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Towards Data Science16 min readIntent, Not Identity
On a recent episode of This Week in AI, we discussed that the number of nonhumans on the internet is greater than humans, 144 to 1. It’s an estimate, and the order of magnitude is more important than the number itself. What matters is what a ratio anywhere in that range does to a security […]
O'Reilly Radar - AI/ML3 min readLast Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation
OpenAI publishes hundreds of math proofs from unreleased frontier model, Mistral and Reflection AI launch open-weight models to rival China, and more!
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