SAP brings agentic AI to human capital management

The phrase “agentic AI” has moved from the whitepapers of research labs into the boardrooms of the Fortune 500, the pitch decks of venture-backed startups, and the strategy documents of governments trying to make sense of what is happening to the global economy. Yet for all the noise, a surprisingly small number of the people […]

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Willow, a pioneering agentic access platform has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding to enable enterprises to safely adopt AI agents across the workplace without impeding innovation. The round was led by Hetz Ventures, following early angel investment from Wix Co-Founder and CEO Avishai Abrahami and President Nir Zohar, who backed Willow at […]

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Mastercard has launched Agent Pay for AI, a new protocol designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to pay each other and send micropayments — storing the permissions that humans grant their AI agents on Polygon, a blockchain network built on top of Ethereum, according to an exclusive report by Fortune published June 10. Related Reading: […]

As artificial intelligence spreads, millions of middle-class jobs in human resources, billing and payroll could be at risk. Most are held by women.

AI-generated code is riddled with security flaws, yet enterprises are shipping more of it than ever before. Why? Perhaps they’re over-confident, lack true visibility into security risks, or are simply choosing to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It’s a dangerous game to play at the dawn of the agentic AI era, as underscored in a new report from app security company Checkmarx. The survey of thousands of security leaders exposes an underlying naivete about AI-built code and its vulnerabilities, even as tools like Anthropic’s Mythos are uncovering security flaws orders of magnitude faster than any human security team could ever hope to. “Mythos-class models collapse the window between a vulnerability existing and a working exploit being available from months to minutes,” the report notes. Enterprises relying on traditional security tools and methods, it says, “cannot survive this reality.” Security as an afterthought Checkmarx’s survey of 2,350 CISOs, AppSec managers, and develop

The move comes as the state works to create money-saving AI agents and seeks to encourage more AI expertise. Other states also are striving for an edge in AI, sometimes with similar innovation labs.

Have we reached a point where AI agents can reliably function as scientific collaborators? Can they go one step further and work as autonomous scientists? Stevens is an Associate Laboratory […] The post ANL’s Rick Stevens Puts AI Agents to the AI-for-Science Test appeared first on AIwire.