De-risking investment in AI agents
For businesses, the potential is transformative: AI agents that can handle complex service interactions, support employees in real time, and scale seamlessly as customer demands...
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These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
What should these protocols say about security? Researchers and developers still don’t really understand how AI models work, and new vulnerabilities are being discovered all...
The Download: What’s next for AI agents, and how Trump protects US tech companies overseas
AI agents is a buzzy term that essentially refers to AI models and algorithms that can not only provide you with information, but take actions...
Finding value from AI agents from day one
From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive cybersecurity checks or automating support, enterprises are abuzz at the...
The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company showed off...
Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality
Let’s start with the term “agent” itself. Right now, it’s being slapped on everything from simple scripts to sophisticated AI workflows. There’s no shared definition,...
The Download: Power in Puerto Rico, and the pitfalls of AI agents
On the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico lies the country’s only coal-fired power station, flanked by a mountain of toxic ash. The plant, owned by...
The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries
In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be captured...
The problem with AI agents
The flash crash is probably the most well-known example of the dangers raised by agents—automated systems that have the power to take actions in the...
Cyberattacks by AI agents are coming
Agents are also significantly smarter than the kinds of bots that are typically used to hack into systems. Bots are simple automated programs that run...