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177 stories tagged AI agents.
Claude Opus 4.8: The Agent Upgrade That Actually Matters
Claude Opus 4.8 ships dynamic workflows, multi-agent coordination, and a massive long-context leap. Here's what the benchmarks actually tell you—and what they don't.
Your AI Agent Knows Nothing About Your Org
Your AI Agent Knows Nothing About Your Org
Context engines promise smarter AI agents—but they work by hoarding your Slack history, CTO messages, and code review patterns. Is the tradeoff worth it?
4 Patterns the Best AI Agents Actually Share
4 Patterns the Best AI Agents Actually Share
Flinn AI's Mardu Swanepoel studied Harvey, Cursor, Manus, and Claude to find what top agents share. The answer: focus, transparency, personalization, reversibility.
When AI Agents Attack Your Own Infrastructure
When AI Agents Attack Your Own Infrastructure
OpenAI's data platform lead Emma reveals why AI agent adoption creates a hidden infrastructure crisis—and what platform teams can do before it buries them.
Inside Google DeepMind's Messy Reality of AI Agents at Scale
Inside Google DeepMind's Messy Reality of AI Agents at Scale
Google DeepMind engineers have worse token quotas than paying customers. KP Sawhney and Ian Ballantyne reveal what running AI agents at Google scale actually looks like.
What AI Town Experiments Actually Teach Us About Agents
What AI Town Experiments Actually Teach Us About Agents
Emergence AI's 15-day virtual town experiment revealed wildly different AI behaviors—and the real lesson has nothing to do with which model is "best."
Six Protocols That Make AI Agents Actually Work
Six Protocols That Make AI Agents Actually Work
Google's agent protocol stack—MCP, A2A, UCP, AP2, A2UI, AGUI—explained through a kitchen manager demo. What each protocol does and when to reach for it.
Stop Prompting. Start Questioning Your AI Agent
Stop Prompting. Start Questioning Your AI Agent
AI strategy creator Nate B Jones says prompt engineering is dead. His 'AI Question Method' has real merit—but there's a data privacy conversation he's skipping entirely.
Anthropic's Claude Keynote: A New Era for Developers
Anthropic's Claude Keynote: A New Era for Developers
Anthropic's Code with Claude London keynote revealed major platform shifts—from advisor strategies to managed agents. Here's what it means for developers building on Claude.
MCP and ADK: Two Tools, Two Jobs, One Stack
MCP and ADK: Two Tools, Two Jobs, One Stack
MCP handles how AI agents talk to the world. ADK handles how they think. IBM's Cedric Clyburn and Anna Gutowska break down why you likely need both.
AI Agents Running for Hours—and Who's Accountable
AI Agents Running for Hours—and Who's Accountable
Anthropic's Prabaker and Wilson reveal the engineering behind long-running AI agents—and raise accountability questions regulators haven't caught up to yet.
AI Agents Break Zero Trust at the Last Mile
AI Agents Break Zero Trust at the Last Mile
AI agents reason brilliantly but authenticate badly. Grant Miller explains why agentic systems shatter zero trust at the legacy integration point—and what fixes it.
When Your AI Agent Acts Without Asking You First
When Your AI Agent Acts Without Asking You First
Browser Use founder Magnus Müller says the real barrier to AI agents isn't technical—it's the interface. And the agent that prompts *you* might be the future.
Paperclip Wants to Turn AI Agents Into a Company
Paperclip Wants to Turn AI Agents Into a Company
Paperclip hit 64K GitHub stars by promising to fix multi-agent chaos with org charts, budgets, and audit logs. Here's what that actually looks like in practice.
HTML vs Markdown: The Format War Reshaping AI Work
HTML vs Markdown: The Format War Reshaping AI Work
An Anthropic engineer's viral essay arguing for HTML over Markdown in AI agent workflows raises real questions about how we're changing what work even means.
Why AI Agents Fail: Lessons in Context Management
Why AI Agents Fail: Lessons in Context Management
Arize's Sally-Ann DeLucia spent a year learning context management the hard way. What broke, what held, and what even Claude Code couldn't solve.
DeepSeek V4: Build Apps and AI Agents for Free
DeepSeek V4: Build Apps and AI Agents for Free
DeepSeek V4 lets non-coders build apps and run AI agents for free. Here's what actually works, what breaks, and what the hype leaves out.
The Hidden Layer Wasting Your AI Workflow Time
The Hidden Layer Wasting Your AI Workflow Time
Prompts, skills, plugins, MCPs—most AI users conflate them all. Here's what each one actually does and why the distinction matters for real work.
Can Harness Engineering Fix AI Agent Chaos?
Can Harness Engineering Fix AI Agent Chaos?
Archon promises to turn chaotic AI coding agents into deterministic systems via harness engineering. Here's what that actually means—and what it doesn't solve.
Why Your AI Agents Aren't Working (Yet)
Why Your AI Agents Aren't Working (Yet)
You set up AI agents and nothing useful happened. Mark Kashef argues the problem isn't the agents—it's the data underneath them. Here's what that means.