Agents: AI news.

Google wants video AI to understand what people need as they work

A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the right moment in longer videos, as errors co

The Decoder·1 Nov→

Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work

Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.

Latent Space·31 Oct→

Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet

Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.

WIRED AI·31 Oct→

An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain

A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.

WIRED AI·31 Oct→

Preview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that keeps a Vite website running in its ses

AWS Machine Learning Blog·30 Oct→

A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates on its own. According to lead researcher Ocana-Santero, it's the first time an AI agent has autonomously chosen a treatment and deliver

The Decoder·30 Oct→

Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders

But it’s still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.

Ars Technica AI·30 Oct→

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

TechCrunch AI·30 Oct→

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Starbucks could eventually show you a personalized digital menu when you pull up to the drive-thru. During an earnings call on Thursday, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the company is going to explore "experiences that recognize participating customers as they

The Verge AI·30 Oct→

How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock

Worldwide Express automated its less-than-truckload freight billing-exception process with a multi-agent solution built on Amazon Bedrock. Six months after launch, the company cut active exceptions by 75%, improved time-to-cash by four weeks, and unlocked $10

AWS Machine Learning Blog·30 Oct→

Configure the ChatGPT desktop app with Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

The ChatGPT desktop app is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This post walks through a controlled local deployment that routes model inference to Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) using API-mode sign-in, a managed device policy, a na

AWS Machine Learning Blog·30 Oct→

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he isn't worried about 'still not great' shopping agents and bots rendering the site useless

TechRadar AI·30 Oct→

Counting agents is the wrong scoreboard: Better questions for enterprise leaders

TechRadar AI·30 Oct→

Build Specialized Agents on a Stack You Control with NVIDIA NemoClaw

Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces...

NVIDIA Developer Blog·30 Oct→

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

TechCrunch AI·30 Oct→

The race to deploy AI agents finds a familiar hurdle in data access

Enterprises racing to put AI agents into production are discovering that role-based access control, not model choice, decides whether those agents can be trusted. Rising inference costs, privacy worries and sovereignty demands are also pulling more AI workload

SiliconANGLE AI·30 Oct→

AI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones

Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones are finding that agentic AI can shorten the research cycle between a crisis and an informed response. Cloudera Inc. has built its AI strategy around deployment flexibility, and one nonprofit partner is testing that

SiliconANGLE AI·30 Oct→

Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants

But a human makes final hiring decisions at global tech consultancy

The Register AI + ML·30 Oct→

How to use AI agents to handle marketing, meetings, invoices, and inventory

TechRadar AI·30 Oct→

Monday.com bets on deployment experts to turn AI agents into real returns

Enterprises have embraced AI for everyday tasks, but turning autonomous agents into measurable business returns is proving far harder. The bottleneck is no longer the technology but the organizational change needed to rewire processes around it. Software provi

SiliconANGLE AI·30 Oct→

HPE cuts executive status meetings with no-code apps built on monday.com

Enterprises are learning that no-code apps deliver the most value when the people closest to the work build them. As AI agents arrive inside work management platforms, the harder task is getting employees comfortable enough to use them without letting adoption

SiliconANGLE AI·29 Oct→

Startup wants to make AI agents safe for DevOps duty

Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray

The Register AI + ML·29 Oct→

Amazon just added 100+ new ways to use Alexa for Shopping —and these are the ones I'm trying first

Tom's Guide AI·29 Oct→

You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now

Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF preview

The Verge AI·29 Oct→