AI Agent
An AI Agent is an autonomous entity that perceives its environment through sensors (or inputs) and acts upon that environment using actuators (or tools) to achieve specific goals. An agent relies on a reasoning brain (typically an LLM) to plan and execute multi-step processes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between an AI Agent and a chatbot?▼
A chatbot replies to inputs based on static patterns or one-off prompts. An AI Agent can plan actions, delegate sub-tasks, run code, read files, and work towards a goal over multiple cycles.
What is planning in AI Agents?▼
Planning is the stage where the agent breaks a complex instruction into a checklist of sub-tasks and reviews its plan before execution.
Quick Facts
- CategoryAgentic Systems
- Key ApplicationAutonomous operations, customer support agents, and automated software developers
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New AI optimization framework beats Claude Code and Codex by 2.5x on the same compute budget
Imagine your engineering team just deployed an AI agent to search through internal company documents and answer employee questions. It works perfectly in develo
CoreWeave Closes the Loop Between Training and Inference
CoreWeave unifies training and inference so AI agents can learn in production, improve autonomously, and evolve into productive coworkers with serverless RL and observability.
Searching for Synergy in Shared Workspace Human-AI Collaboration
Automated AI agents are increasingly capable, yet many scientific and professional tasks require human judgment and contextual expertise. We study shared-worksp
AWS enters the context layer race with a graph that learns from agents, not manual curation
Building a context layer between enterprise data stores and AI agents is bespoke work, with no standard service to automate or maintain the graphs over time. Am
Vercel launches a new framework and enterprise controls for agentic AI infrastructure
Front-end software development startup Vercel Inc. introduced a set of new products today at Ship, its annual conference, to deepen its agentic artificial intelligence infrastructure platform to align how enterprises deploy, run and scale with AI agents. "Each new generation of software needs a new
Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale
Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. Today, that context is scattered across data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, databases,
SentinelOne turns Purple AI loose to investigate threats on its own
SentinelOne Inc. today opened its Purple AI Agentic Investigations capability to all customers, adding autonomous threat investigation that runs without an analyst having to launch it. The feature is available this week as a free trial inside the company's Singularity Platform. It can work through a
Ex-Cisco researchers launch Tenet Security to lock down rogue AI agents
Former Cisco artificial intelligence security researchers have launched a new company to tackle a problem that barely existed a year ago: securing the autonomous AI agents enterprises are handing the keys to their most critical systems. Tenet Security Inc. today formally launched a platform designed
Dissecting model behavior through agent trajectories
AI agent performance is not just a modeling problem, it is fundamentally a systems problem. The advanced capabilities of models are realized through agent harne
FAQ: Real-time context engine, agent memory, and retrieval
AI agents are getting better at reasoning, planning, and using tools. But even the smartest model can give a bad answer if it has the wrong context, stale data, or too much irrelevant information. That is why context engineering is becoming a critica...
Retrieval vs. memory in AI agents: why context layers need both
A returning user asks your agent why their bill doubled this month. The agent greets them by name, pulls up last week's billing dispute, and references the workaround your team suggested. Then it confidently quotes a pricing policy that was retired th...
The AGI moment? Databricks' new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents
Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled a new architecture - Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing - that enabl
Hands Free, AIs Forward: NVIDIA XR AI Brings Agents to AR Glasses
NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.
Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone calls, SMS and chat. Where much
Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that's been slowing AI agents
For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn't intro
HPE expands self-driving networking strategy as AI moves into production
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure enhancements at its Discover customer conference, promising to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale by implementing self-driving networks and establishing AI factories as the foun
Glean's AI platform leverages enterprise data to power models and agents
Glean Technologies Inc.'s roots are in enterprise search, which has provided the company with a useful springboard to become one of the leading developers of enterprise-grade autonomous agents and AI-powered business solutions. The company's ability to help businesses create "horizontal" AI agents t
Okta expands Google Cloud partnership to secure AI agents and the browser
Okta Inc. today expanded its partnership with Google LLC's Google Cloud with a set of integrations that bring identity governance to artificial intelligence agents and tighten security across the Chrome browser. The deal pairs Okta's identity layer with Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platfor
AppViewX targets ungoverned AI agents with new identity security product
AppViewX Inc. today launched Agent Identity Security, a product that discovers, governs and monitors artificial intelligence agents across enterprise environments as autonomous software increasingly operates on sensitive systems without human oversight. The product extends the AppViewX platform, bui
Limitless Labs lands $20M to build AI agents for precision manufacturing
Limitless Labs, operating as LimitlessCNC Ltd., today announced it has raised $20 million in early-stage funding to support agentic artificial intelligence in computer-aided manufacturing. Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg co-led the Series A funding round, joined by Grove Ventures, Meron Cap
Beyond Identity launches Ceros AI agent security platform
Beyond Identity Inc. today debuted a platform called Ceros that is designed to help enterprises secure their artificial intelligence agents. New York-based Beyond Security is backed by more than $200 million in funding. Its flagship product is an IAM, or identity and access management, platform that
Malaysia's AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.
AI agent authorization startup Arcade nabs $60M investment
Arcade AI Inc., the developer of an authorization platform for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $60 million in funding. SYN Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Morgan Stanley and Wipro Ltd., a publicly traded technology consulting firm. The process of
SailPoint acquires AI agent security startup Entro for reported $200M
SailPoint Technologies Inc. is acquiring Entro Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises secure their artificial intelligence agents. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. CTech reported that the transaction is worth about $200 million. Nasdaq-listed Sa
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent. The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of comm
AI Agent Failure Detection and Root Cause Analysis with Strands Evals
In this post, we walk you through calling the detector functions to diagnose real agent failures. You learn how to interpret their structured output: categorize
85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them.
Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research surv
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
Here's How AI Agents Can Protect EV Chargers
An AI agent system proposed by researchers in Spain promises to prevent energy theft and damage to EV chargers, as well as the critical energy infrastructure th
NanoClaw and JFrog launch 'immune system' to block AI agents from downloading malicious code
The creators of the hit, enterprise-friendly, open source OpenClaw variant NanoClaw are partnering with software supply chain management leader JFrog to launch
PixelRAG beats text parsers on accuracy and cuts AI agent token costs 10x
Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieva
ChatSee raises $6.5M to build 'failure memory' for enterprise AI agents
ChatSee.AI Inc., a company that provides a failure intelligence layer for autonomous artificial intelligence systems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding. True Ventures led the round, announced Thursday, with participation from First Rays Venture Partners, Seven Hills Ventures and other industry
OpenAI acquires AI agent orchestration startup Ona
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Ona, a startup with a platform for managing long-running artificial intelligence agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Developers often run the AI agents they use to write code on their local machines. When a workstation is turned off, th
Microsoft's open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights
Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism - a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown
Evaluate AI agents systematically with Agent-EvalKit
Agent-EvalKit is an open-source toolkit (Apache 2.0) that makes this evaluation infrastructure available by integrating with AI coding assistants, including Cla
Introducing Verifiable Execution in Dapr 1.18
Bringing attestation, provenance, and tamper-evident execution history to workflows and AI agents For years, the cloud native ecosystem has focused on making distributed systems resilient. Applications recover from failures. Services retry requests. Workflows survive crashes and...
Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact
Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to
Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?
Scientific AI agents increasingly retrieve evidence, reason across sources, and synthesize conclusions used in consequential decisions. Yet, their ability to do
OpenAI to acquire Ona
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
Connect Your Redis index to AI agents with RedisVL MCP
If you already use Redis for search, retrieval, or application memory, the RedisVL MCP is a practical next step: making that data available to agents without rebuilding your integration for every framework. As teams connect indexed data to agents, th...
Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations
Today, we're announcing the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities: a collection of AI agents and skills that make this possible for developers building on AWS
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strat
On-device AI agents hit a hard memory limit. Apple's new architecture routes around it.
On-device AI models have stayed small because the entire weight set has to live in DRAM, capping practical parameter counts well below what server-side deployme
Learning to lead in a hybrid human-AI enterprise
As adoption of AI agents looks set to surge by as much as 300% in the next two years, leadership teams are carefully considering the implications of a hybrid hu
For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as they're opened by an AI agent.
NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning 'League of Legends' Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea's PC Bangs
At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this
SentinelBench: A Benchmark for Long-Running Monitoring Agents
AI agents are increasingly asked to carry out work that spans minutes, hours, or longer. Yet the default model o
AI agents are learning on the job - just not for your whole team
When someone on a team corrects an AI agent - better prompts, better feedback, better context - that improvement disappears the moment a colleague opens the sam
The Saturation Trap and the Subjectivity of Intervention Timing: Why Affect-Based Triggers and LLM Judges Fail to Time Interventions on Autonomous Agents
As autonomous AI agents move from conversational systems to long-horizon software execution, runtime safety laye
Toward Pre-Deployment Assurance for Enterprise AI Agents: Ontology-Grounded Simulation and Trust Certification
Pre-deployment verification of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) agents remains a critical gap between lar
Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform
How Endava is redesigning software delivery around AI agents
Learn how Endava is using AI agents, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Codex to accelerate software delivery, automate workflows, and build an AI-native culture across th
NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI
At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision A
Meta's AI agent for WhatsApp Business is now available globally
WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage.
Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents
Coralogix is among a growing number of infrastructure firms betting that as AI systems move into production, demand will rise for tools that can monitor their b
Enterprise AI agents keep creating data silos. Microsoft's Build answer is Microsoft IQ and Rayfin.
Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tool
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.
Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable - teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage fil
Secure AI agents with Policy and Lambda interceptors in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway
In this post, we use a lakehouse data agent to demonstrate how you can use Policy for deterministic access control and Lambda interceptors for dynamic validatio
NVIDIA Levels Up Local AI Agents Across RTX PCs and DGX Spark
Personal agents are exploding in popularity, with open source projects like OpenClaw and Hermes seeing rapid adoption by AI developer communities on GitHub. Bui