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Autonomous and semi-autonomous software agents.
Anthropic's consumer agent shows its strongest use is catching what falls between email, Slack and docs, and its weakest is pretending to understand tone or do the creative work.
Amplitude's Wave agent shows what AI product work can look like when it's grounded in real usage data, but this is a vendor story and the numbers deserve some care.
Nectar's Creator Agent could save marketers weeks of grunt work, but automated, personalized outreach to creators at scale raises its own questions about authenticity and privacy.
The spy story raised questions about geopolitics. The second allegation raised a simpler one every company understands: what happens when the boss dates someone who reports to him.
Microsoft's Lazarus research shows a model can be backdoored by editing a handful of neurons, no training required, which makes the integrity of model weights a frontline security problem for every agent with a terminal.
eBay quietly blocking outside AI agents is a reminder that the agentic shopping future depends on retailers' permission, and many of them aren't giving it.
Muse on the wrist is less about smartwatches than about Meta trying to make its agent the one people reach for first, everywhere, before habits harden around a rival.
Agents spend most of their lives waiting, and Kubernetes was built for services that never stop; NVIDIA's open-source Agent Substrate is a serious attempt to fix that mismatch.
Meta's newest Muse model is not built to impress in a chat window. It is built to be cheap, multimodal labor underneath agents, and that is where the real price war is heading.
Read closely, Jensen Huang's apology does two different jobs: it confesses a personal failure in full, and it handles the national security question with a far shorter, more careful hand.
Apple is finally trying to turn Siri from a voice remote into an agent that finishes tasks, and it's doing so from behind, under pressure, on a compressed clock.
Meta is turning Muse from a chat buddy into a project board — Spaces that stay open on vacation plans, gift lists, and DIY, and sync third-party apps in the background.