2+ week, 2+ day ago  (574+ words) The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (541+ words) For developers, Web IQ isn't replacing the model underneath an agent. It's intended to complement the LLM, but addressing two things no model can fix on its own. First, a model's knowledge stops at its training cutoff, so it knows…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (271+ words) For most of the generative AI era, Microsoft has been the most prominent buyer of someone else's intelligence. Its Copilot stack runs on Open AI's GPT models. Azure customers reach for frontier reasoning through the partnership. The arrangement has worked,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (844+ words) The first observation centers on the concept of capability overhang: the idea that AI models are more capable than the tasks for which we use them in the real world. "Just because an AI is highly capable of something does…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (256+ words) Building reliable AI agents has traditionally meant doing most of the hard work before anyone uses them. Developers run lengthy offline evaluations against labeled datasets, measure performance across quality, accuracy, cost, and style benchmarks, make improvements, and repeat the cycle…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (501+ words) What AWS is doing goes well beyond helping developers write better spec documents. It's about mathematically verifying that what they're asking AI to build is actually buildable'before a single line of code is generated. The approach relies on Neurosymbolic AI,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (549+ words) Enterprises have spent the past year building AI agents. Now they have to figure out what to do with them. To help, Glean has released its Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a framework that gives Chief Information Officers and IT…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (426+ words) Service Now is also pairing its AI Specialists with AWS agents to handle workflows across security, IT operations, and telecommunications, with humans approving key decisions. Separately, the company is bringing its SDK into Kiro, AWS's agentic IDE, so developers can…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (215+ words) Twilio argues that existing communication channels weren't built for the agentic era. Services like messaging and email were designed for human-to-human interaction, forcing developers into a trade-off: rigid compliance requirements on one end and inadequate spam protection on the other'neither…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (293+ words) Every year, Adobe gives its employees a hall pass'the chance to pitch ideas that exist outside the company's official product roadmap. The best ones surface at the end of the company's Summit and Max events in a showcase called Sneaks....