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This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-07-23 18:06:48

AI companies are pushing agents as the next Great Workplace Disruptor, but experts say they’re still not ready for prime time. AI agents often struggle to make decisions by themselves, hallucinate frequently, can’t cooperate with other agents, fail at confidentiality awareness, and integrate poorly with existing systems. Industry pioneers like Andrej Karpathy and Ali Ghodsi have said that, like the deployment of autonomous vehicles, humans need to be in the loop in order for agents to succeed.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-07-24 02:30:00

Most people’s browser tabs are filled with unread news articles. Mine are filled with AI agents and ghost clicks. I have four instances of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent—the generative AI tool released last week, which can run searches and perform tasks on the web—already open with each running in its own tab. I’ve given these first four agents relatively simple jobs based on ChatGPT’s suggestions. One is clicking around to find a birthday gift on the Target website, and another is generating a pitch d

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How AI agents can generate $450 billion by 2028 - and what stands in the way

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-07-24 04:00:18

Philip Thurston/Getty Images Agentic AI is one of the fastest-emerging technologies in business, with the potential to generate $450 billion in economic value through revenue uplift and cost savings across surveyed countries by 2028, according to the Rise of agentic AI: How trust is the key to human-AI collaboration. The new report from Capgemini Research Institute reveals insights from a survey of 1,500 senior executives across 14 countries on the emergence of AI agents as a transformative for

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I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2025-07-25 23:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2025-07-26 04:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Christopher Ketcham 2025-07-26 20:55:40

In January 2001, the security branch of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency began to receive a number of peculiar reports from DEA field offices across the country. According to the reports, young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies. Strangest of all, the “students” had visited the homes of n

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AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-29 22:04:22

AWS Summit 2025 at the Javits Center in NYC. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Forget the old Apple slogan, "Think different." For Deepak Singh, VP of developer agents and experiences at AWS, the mantra of the future is "work differently," and the way he wants to do that is through agentic AI. "I think people get too hung up on the automation and efficiency, part of which are outcomes," said Singh. "We are working differently, but the way we are working different is making us more effective because [agents

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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-30 06:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Tuesday. The financing comes just three months after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor a

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How and where will agents ship software?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 22:47:08

We’re entering a new phase of software engineering. People are becoming addicted to agents. Beginners are vibe-coding apps and experts are maxing out their LLM subscriptions. This means that a lot more people are going to make a lot more apps, and for that we’re going to need new tools. Today we’re releasing an API that gives you and your agents full-stack backends. Each backend comes with a database, a sync engine, auth tools, file storage, and presence. Agents can use these tools to ship hig

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AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-01 02:31:56

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes AI agents will change how we all work and interact with information, and that enterprises need a platform that allows them to build and deploy agents at scale — all in one place. Today at its New York Summit, AWS unveiled Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new enterprise-grade platform designed to bu

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AWS aims to be your one-stop-shop for AI agents from Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, and others

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-01 06:00:00

SOPA Images / Contributor/Getty Amazon Web Services (AWS) wants to be the go-to marketplace for businesses looking to buy and implement AI agents. At the annual AWS Summit in New York City on Wednesday, Amazon announced the launch of AI agents and Tools, a new virtual store within AWS Marketplace where enterprise customers can search through agents from Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, Salesforce, and other vendors. Also: How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy Cr

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent

wired.com Will Knight 2025-08-01 09:02:47

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step toward much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup cofounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates, and other documentation with the goal o

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made A New Kind of AI Agent

wired.com Will Knight 2025-08-01 14:02:47

A new kind of artificial intelligence agent, trained to understand how software is built by gorging on a company’s data and learning how this leads to an end product, could be both a more capable software assistant and a small step towards much smarter AI. The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup confounded by top AI researchers from Google. Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates and other documentation with the goal

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Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-03 06:40:18

VideoSDK AI Agents Open-source framework for developing real-time multimodal conversational AI agents. Overview The AI Agent SDK is a Python framework built on top of the VideoSDK Python SDK that enables AI-powered agents to join VideoSDK rooms as participants. This SDK serves as a real-time bridge between AI models (like OpenAI and Gemini) and your users, facilitating seamless voice and media interactions. # Feature Description 1 🎤 Real-time Communication (Audio/Video) Agents can listen, sp

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How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-06 12:00:13

Jiojio/Getty Images Business is on a never-ending quest to boost efficiency, cut costs, and increase productivity. Some of the earliest known businesses -- ancient Mesopotamian traders -- inspired the invention of writing. (Record keeping -- now that's a competitive advantage!) Similar needs have existed in every economic period. The big difference now is that AI technology can boost these efficiencies in new and exponentially profitable ways. Agentic AI is at the core of this efficiency boost

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Show HN: ArchGW – an intelligent edge and service proxy for agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-05 22:55:39

Hey HN! This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again. A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applyi

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The great AI agent acceleration: Why enterprise adoption is happening faster than anyone predicted

venturebeat.com Matt Marshall 2025-08-07 05:43:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The chatter around artificial general intelligence (AGI) may dominate headlines coming from Silicon Valley companies like OpenAI, Meta and xAI, but for enterprise leaders on the ground, the focus is squarely on practical applications and measurable results. At VentureBeat’s recent Transform 2025 event in San Francisco, a clear picture emerg

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AI agent benchmarks are broken

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Kang 2025-08-07 15:06:32

Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development. As AI agents move from research demos to mission-critical applications, researchers and practitioners are building benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities and limitations. These AI agent benchmarks are significantly more complex than traditional AI benchmarks in task formulation (e.g., often requiring a simulator of realistic scenarios) and evaluation (e.g., no

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Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 22:08:52

Get 10X more out of Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Amp and other coding agents... Overview AI coding agents are increasingly writing the world's code and human engineers now spend the majority of their time planning, reviewing, and orchestrating tasks. Vibe Kanban streamlines this process, enabling you to: Easily switch between different coding agents Orchestrate the execution of multiple coding agents in parallel or in sequence Quickly review work and start dev servers Track the status o

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AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Kang 2025-08-08 06:06:32

Benchmarks are foundational to evaluating the strengths and limitations of AI systems, guiding both research and industry development. As AI agents move from research demos to mission-critical applications, researchers and practitioners are building benchmarks to evaluate their capabilities and limitations. These AI agent benchmarks are significantly more complex than traditional AI benchmarks in task formulation (e.g., often requiring a simulator of realistic scenarios) and evaluation (e.g., no

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AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-08-09 02:59:26

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The AWS agent marketplace launch will take place at the AWS Summit in New York City on July 15, two people familiar with the development told TechCrunch. AWS and Anthropic did not respond to requests for comments. AI agents are ubiquitous nowadays. And every single investor in Silicon Valley is bullish on startups building them — even if there is so

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Skip the AI ‘bake-off’ and build autonomous agents: Lessons from Intuit and Amex

venturebeat.com Leon Yen 2025-08-11 03:12:41

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now As generative AI matures, enterprises are shifting from experimentation to implementation—moving beyond chatbots and copilots into the realm of intelligent, autonomous agents. In a conversation with VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall, Ashok Srivastava, SVP and Chief Data Officer at Intuit, and Hillary Packer, EVP and CTO at American Express at VB

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Scaling agentic AI: Inside Atlassian’s culture of experimentation

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-08-12 21:50:00

Scaling agentic AI isn’t just about having the latest tools — it requires clear guidance, the right context, and a culture that champions experimentation to unlock real value. At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, Anu Bharadwaj, president of Atlassian, shared actionable insights into how the company has empowered its employees to build thousands of custom agents that solve real, everyday challenges. To build these agents, Atlassian has fostered a culture rooted in curiosity, enthusiasm and continuous

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Zoom's AI gets a huge productivity upgrade - here's what it can do now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-08-12 22:00:14

alexsl/Getty Images Zoom's AI assistant just got another agentic upgrade. The company announced Wednesday that its AI Companion, unveiled close to two years ago, can now connect with 16 third-party apps -- all without forcing the user to leave Zoom. Also: How ChatGPT actually works (and why it's been so game-changing) The AI Companion can now more seamlessly assist sales and customer service professionals, for example, by connecting directly with apps like Salesforce and Zendesk. It can also

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MCP isn’t KYC-ready: Why regulated sectors are wary of open agent exchanges

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-08-13 14:33:17

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now For something launched in November, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has begun amassing a large number of users, all but guaranteeing the mass adoption needed to make it an industry standard. But there is a subset of enterprises that are not joining the hype for now: regulated industries, especially financial institutions. Banks and other

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Linux Foundation adopts A2A protocol to help solve one of AI's most pressing challenges

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-08-15 20:00:00

koto_feja/Getty Images The Linux Foundation announced at the Open Source Summit in Denver that it will now host the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol. Initially developed by Google and now supported by more than 100 leading technology companies, A2A is a crucial new open standard for secure and interoperable communication between AI agents. Also: What are AI agents? How to access a team of personalized assistants In his keynote presentation, Mike Smith, a Google staff software engineer, told the con

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A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

zdnet.com Vala Afshar 2025-08-15 20:00:13

Mykyta Atamanchuk/Getty Images Salesforce has had over one million AI agent-customer conversations. The company launched AI agents on its Salesforce Help site in October 2024, a full-screen experience that makes getting support simpler and more intuitive. With more than 60 million visits each year, Salesforce Help offers a wide range of product content through organized directories, search, and direct support. Having handled a million support requests since the launch of AI agents, Salesforce

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How Capital One built production multi-agent AI workflows to power enterprise use cases

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-08-17 05:50:00

How do you balance risk management and safety with innovation in agentic systems — and how do you grapple with core considerations around data and model selection? In this VB Transform session, Milind Naphade, SVP, technology, of AI Foundations at Capital One, offered best practices and lessons learned from real-world experiments and applications for deploying and scaling an agentic workflow. Capital One, committed to staying at the forefront of emerging technologies, recently launched a produc

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5 ways to be great AI agent manager, according to business leaders

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-08-17 10:16:03

akinbostanci/Getty Microsoft recently said that maximizing AI and agents' performance involves learning about management concerns, including delegating, iterating, prompting, and refining the technology. The tech giant's research suggested that the requirement for someone to manage these teams of AIs has led to the evolution of a new role, the agent boss, who is responsible for the best performance of these fast-emerging technologies. Also: 4 questions to ask yourself before betting on AI in

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Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies

venturebeat.com Sean Falconer 2025-08-17 22:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI agents like they’re just a prompt away from replacing entire departments. The dream is seductive: Autonomous systems that can handle anything you throw at them, no guardrails, no constraints, just give them your AWS credentials and they’ll solve all your problems. But the reality is that’s ju

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Latest Tech News

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

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I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them

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The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

AI agents will change work and society in internet-sized ways, says AWS VP

Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent

Former Top Google Researchers Have Made A New Kind of AI Agent

Open-source framework for real-time AI voice

How agentic AI is transforming the very foundations of business strategy

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The great AI agent acceleration: Why enterprise adoption is happening faster than anyone predicted

AI agent benchmarks are broken

Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken

AWS is launching an AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic as a partner

Skip the AI ‘bake-off’ and build autonomous agents: Lessons from Intuit and Amex

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MCP isn’t KYC-ready: Why regulated sectors are wary of open agent exchanges

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A million customer conversations with AI agents yielded this surprising lesson

How Capital One built production multi-agent AI workflows to power enterprise use cases

5 ways to be great AI agent manager, according to business leaders

Forget the hype — real AI agents solve bounded problems, not open-world fantasies

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