#ai agent

Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.

AI Library, an outcome-based software delivery startup founded in 2023 by Arani Chaudhuri, has raised $560,000 in pre-seed funding at a $7.5 million valuation cap to accelerate its AI agent-driven approach to enterprise software deployment. The company’s platform automates the software delivery lifecycle using AI agents with human oversight, targeting enterprise functions including finance, operations, […]

Perplexity has opened its Personal Computer feature to all Mac users through a new desktop app, bringing local AI agent capabilities beyond its previous Max subscriber waitlist. The tool extends Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer product onto users’ own devices, giving AI agents access to local files, native Mac applications, over 400 connectors, and the web to […]

I counted at least 10 events in San Francisco last night aimed at matching AI startups with VCs. Just another Thursday. But what made Camp AI’s “Agents at Work” event (hosted by Auth0) stand out was its showcase of companies that are in various stages of reorganizing their engineering processes around AI agents. Browserbase, Mastra, Fireworks AI, Drata, Mya, MindFort, and Corridor are all part of the vendor ecosystem trying to enable secure and performant agentic AI, but the most revelatory stories were their own successes and the challenges they faced restructuring their engineering orgs for agents. Agentic AI is reshaping team structures Paul Klein IV, founder and CEO of Browserbase, delivered the night’s most memorable line while discussing the speed of AI adoption inside engineering teams. “If AI is not doing your whole job it’s a skill issue at this point,” said Klein. Abhi Aiyer, founder and CTO of Mastra, said the result is dramatically smaller teams capable of executing much l

Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic workflows.  The post The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory appeared first on Towards Data Science.

I left Google ten days ago to found my own company. It's been quite a journey figuring out how things work outside of the mothership, and I'm genuinely excited to share what I've learned from both sides of the house...

As agents move past demos and into enterprise workflows, organizations are confronting the governance, infrastructure and operational problems posed by more autonomous AI systems.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nace.AI has announced it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding, led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst and a group of leading institutional and angel investors. Alongside the raise, the company is launching its new product in research preview, a new model for professional work where 100+ specialized AI agents […]

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / AI Am Over It / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Misia Temler, University of Sydney With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools. As we chart this new technological […]

If you’re an aspiring AI engineer looking to sharpen your skills, building AI agents is one of the most effective ways to get hands-on experience. AI agents represent practical applications of AI across domains, from personal assistants and recommendation systems to financial traders. Here are 10 AI agents every engineer should build. For each, you’ll […] The post 10 AI Agents Every AI Engineer Must Build (with GitHub Samples) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Most AI agents are stuck in their ways. Built once, they repeat the same patterns regardless of the task at hand. But new research suggests a smarter path forward: agents that get sharper with every challenge they face...

Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.

San Francisco startup Fazeshift closed a $17M Series A led by F-Prime to scale AI agents that automate over 90% of manual AR tasks.

Teradata has launched its Autonomous Knowledge Platform, a new flagship offering that brings together data, analytics, AI development, agent orchestration, and governance across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The target customer is an enterprise that has moved beyond testing AI assistants and is now asking harder questions: which data agents can use, what actions they can take, how much they will cost to run, and who is accountable when something goes wrong. The company said the platform builds on its existing database engine and governance infrastructure, while adding new capabilities and more tightly integrating existing ones, including AI Studio, the Tera natural-language workspace, Tera Agents, Elastic Compute on Teradata Cloud, and the upcoming Teradata Factory for on-premises AI workloads. Teradata is entering a competitive market with this. Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce are all trying to persuade customers that their platforms should beco

Ghent-based Tekst has raised €11.5M in a Series A led by Elephant to automate back-office processes using AI agents.

Zillow Group's first-quarter shareholder letter made the company's strongest case yet for its transformation into an AI-powered real estate platform, citing AI-driven productivity gains, a new consumer search mode, and AI tools for agents and property managers. Revenue rose 18% to $708 million. Read More

The vendor’s new agents could find a home in big Wall Street firms, threaten mid-sized service providers and start to push entry-level finance jobs aside.

As agencies deploy AI across their missions, officials launching AI agents and cybersecurity officials need to work together, Palo Alto AI technologist shares.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2026 — Sysdig today announced headless cloud security, the first cyberdefense platform designed for the agentic AI era. Sysdig Headless Cloud Security enables customers to drop the […] The post Sysdig Introduces the Industry’s 1st Headless Cloud Security Platform Built for AI Agents appeared first on AIwire.

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?