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Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026

Mark Zuckerberg says 2026 will be "a big year for delivering personal super intelligence."

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Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork

The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."

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Linq raises $20M to enable AI assistants to live within messaging apps

Linq offers an API that lets companies offer their AI assistants via iMessage, RCS, and SMS.

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Agentic AI: Reinventing cloud operations

Agentic AI is causing a transformative shift in cloud operations by going far beyond scripted automation to offer autonomous orchestration of complex tasks.

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‘Reddit for bots’ Moltbook (probably) isn’t being used to plot an AI uprising

Moltbot, a personal AI assistant being run on batches of Mac minis, got a lot of attention when creator Matt Schlicht effectively partnered with his own assistant to develop a social media platform for the bots. Known as Moltbook, it’s been colloquially referred to as Reddit for AI bots. Schlicht

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Accel doubles down on Fibr AI as agents turn static websites into one-to-one experiences

Fibr AI replaces marketing agency- and engineering-heavy website personalization with autonomous systems designed for enterprise scale.

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OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.

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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all

This week's release of Opus 4.6 shook up the agentic AI leaderboards.

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Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet

A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling.

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Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains

Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI work assistant,” aimi

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Glean’s fight to own the AI layer inside every company

Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization. But who will own the AI layer that powers all of it?  Glean, which started as an enterprise search product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI work assistant,” aimi

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OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments

OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments

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The enterprise AI land grab is on — Glean is building the layer beneath the interface

In this week's episode of the Equity podcast, Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains the company's shift from enterprise search tool to middleware layer for enterprise AI.

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Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

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IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

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A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox

The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.

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Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data

Nimble uses AI agents to search the web, verify and validate the results, and then clean and structure the information into neat tables that can then be queried like a database.

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New Relic launches new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools

New Relic is giving enterprises more observability tools, letting them create and manage AI agents, and better integrate OTel data streams.

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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plug-ins for finance, engineering, and design

It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.

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Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal

The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts.

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Jira’s latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side

Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira," which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.

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Gemini can now automate some multi-step tasks on Android

Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google.

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Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

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Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise

Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.

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Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy – most labor goes to the machines, and humans shift to verification:…What grappling with the singularity seriously l

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Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement

AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare

AWS is launching Amazon Connect Health, an AI agent platform that will help with patient scheduling, documentation, and patient verification.

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Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts

Meta says that Moltbook's approach to "connecting agents through an always-on-directory" is novel.

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AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents

AgentMail provides an API platform that lets you give AI agents their own email inboxes, with support for two-way conversations, parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying.

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Meta’s Moltbook deal points to a future built around AI agents

Meta’s Moltbook acquisition may look odd at first, but the deal could signal how Meta sees AI agents shaping future advertising and commerce on an agentic web.

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Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought

Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.

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Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder

As companies race to adopt AI, Benchmark general partner Everett Randle believes the key to success lies in empowering every worker with AI superpowers, and Gumloop’s intuitive agent builder is an example of the kind of tool that will unlock that potential.

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NVIDIA GTC 2026 signals enterprise agentic AI era

NVIDIA's GTC 2026 (March 10-14) marked a shift from AI demonstrations to production deployment case studies, with Fortune 500 companies presenting live agentic AI systems in active use. OpenCLAW surpassed 100,000 GitHub stars, making it the fastest-growing open-source AI project on record. NeMoCLAW and OpenCLAW emerged as the dominant orchestration frameworks across enterprise announcements at the conference.

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Holotron-12B - High Throughput Computer Use Agent

Holotron-12B - High Throughput Computer Use Agent

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Ranking Engineer Agent (REA): The Autonomous AI Agent Accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking Innovation

Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent (REA) autonomously executes key steps across the end-to-end machine learning (ML) lifecycle for ads ranking models. This post covers REA’s ML experimentation capabilities: autonomously generating hypotheses, launching training jobs, debugging failures, and iterating on

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Partnering with Edra: Context for Agents at Scale

The post Partnering with Edra: Context for Agents at Scale appeared first on Sequoia Capital.

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This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt

The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.

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Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.

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Powering the agents: Workers AI now runs large models, starting with Kimi K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is now on Workers AI, helping you power agents entirely on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform. Learn how we optimized our inference stack and reduced inference costs for internal agent use cases.

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WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

New AI agents on WordPress.com could lower barriers to publishing while increasing machine-generated content across the web.

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How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell

Autonomous agents mark a new inflection point in AI. Systems are no longer limited to generating responses or reasoning through tasks. They can take action: Agents can read files, use tools, write and run code, and execute workflows across enterprise systems, all while expanding their own capabiliti

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A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)

A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)

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Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster

We’re introducing Dynamic Workers, which allow you to execute AI-generated code in secure, lightweight isolates. This approach is 100 times faster than traditional containers, enabling millisecond startup times for AI agent sandboxing.

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MCP crosses 97 million installs, moves to Linux Foundation

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol reached 97 million installs as of March 2026, with all major AI providers now shipping MCP-compatible tooling. The Linux Foundation announced it will take the protocol under open governance, removing single-vendor control. MCP has become the de facto standard for AI tool interoperability in under two years of existence.

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Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app

Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.

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Building a ‘Human-in-the-Loop’ Approval Gate for Autonomous Agents

In agentic AI systems , when an agent's execution pipeline is intentionally halted, we have what is known as a state-managed interruption .

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Meta Adaptive Ranking Model: Bending the Inference Scaling Curve to Serve LLM-Scale Models for Ads

Meta continues to lead the industry in utilizing groundbreaking AI Recommendation Systems (RecSys) to deliver better experiences for people, and better results for advertisers. To reach the next frontier of performance, we are scaling Meta’s Ads Recommender runtime models to LLM-scale & complexity t

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KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure

This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous post introduced Ranking Engineer Agent’s ML exploration capability, which autonomously designs, executes, and analyzes ranking model exp

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How Meta Used AI to Map Tribal Knowledge in Large-Scale Data Pipelines

AI coding assistants are powerful but only as good as their understanding of your codebase. When we pointed AI agents at one of Meta’s large-scale data processing pipelines – spanning four repositories, three languages, and over 4,100 files – we quickly found that they weren’t making useful edits qu

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Enabling agent-first process redesign

Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around age

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Handling Race Conditions in Multi-Agent Orchestration

If you've ever watched two agents confidently write to the same resource at the same time and produce something that makes zero sense, you already know what a race condition feels like in practice.

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Microsoft open-source toolkit secures AI agents at runtime

A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents. The release tackles a growing anxiety: autonomous language models are now executing code and hitting corporate networks way faster than traditional policy controls can keep up.

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A Hands-On Guide to Testing Agents with RAGAs and G-Eval

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Poke makes using AI agents as easy as sending a text

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.

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The Roadmap to Mastering Agentic AI Design Patterns

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Why companies like Apple are building AI agents with limits

Next-generation AI assistants being developed in the Apple ecosystem and by chipmakers like Qualcomm, but early reports suggest they are being designed with limits in place. Tom’s Guide has described early versions of these assistants as capable of navigating apps, carrying out bookings, and managin

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Salesforce won’t be discarded in the AI boom, but what companies want is changing

Despite the risks, many analysts at major banks remain bullish on Salesforce.

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How to Build a Secure Local-First Agent Runtime with OpenClaw Gateway, Skills, and Controlled Tool Execution

In this tutorial, we build and operate a fully local, schema-valid OpenClaw runtime. We configure the OpenClaw gateway with strict loopback binding, set up authenticated model access through environment variables, and define a secure execution environment using the built-in exec tool. We then create

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Welcome to Agents Week

Cloudflare's mission has always been to help build a better Internet. Sometimes that means building for the Internet as it exists. Sometimes it means building for the Internet as it's about to become. This week, we're kicking off Agents Week, dedicated to what comes next.

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MiniMax Releases MMX-CLI: A Command-Line Interface That Gives AI Agents Native Access to Image, Video, Speech, Music, Vision, and Search

MiniMax, the AI research company behind the MiniMax omni-modal model stack, has released MMX-CLI — Node.js-based command-line interface that exposes the MiniMax AI platform’s full suite of generative capabilities, both to human developers working in a terminal and to AI agents running in tools like

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Structured Outputs vs. Function Calling: Which Should Your Agent Use?

Language models (LMs), at their core, are text-in and text-out systems.

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Agents have their own computers with Sandboxes GA

Cloudflare Sandboxes give AI agents a persistent, isolated environment: a real computer with a shell, a filesystem, and background processes that starts on demand and picks up exactly where it left off.

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Durable Objects in Dynamic Workers: Give each AI-generated app its own database

We’re introducing Durable Object Facets, allowing Dynamic Workers to instantiate Durable Objects with their own isolated SQLite databases. This enables developers to build platforms that run persistent, stateful code generated on-the-fly.

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Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent

The company has also previously introduced agents that are able to complete tasks, Cowork and Copilot Tasks.

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Google ADK Multi-Agent Pipeline Tutorial: Data Loading, Statistical Testing, Visualization, and Report Generation in Python

In this tutorial, we build an advanced data analysis pipeline using Google ADK and organize it as a practical multi-agent system for real analytical work. We set up the environment, configure secure API access, create a centralized data store, and define specialized tools for loading data, exploring