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Tag: AI Agents
AWS Makes Quick’s Desktop App Generally Available
Amazon Web Services has released a new way for enterprise customers to use its Quick AI assistant. On Thursday, the company announced that a desktop version is now generally available, offering another way to use it beyond the browser. This app also gives the AI more context by pulling in work-related information stored on the […]
Salesforce Unveils ‘Trusted Enterprise AI Harness’ to Give AI Agents Business Context
Salesforce built its business on human users, but over the past couple of years, it’s been building for the digital ones. Since launching Agentforce in 2024, the company has invested in helping customers become what it calls “agentic enterprises”—firms where autonomous agents work alongside human employees. On Thursday, Salesforce introduced the latest step in its […]
Botsitting, Botshitting, and the Hours AI Never Gave Back
We’re being bombarded by tech companies hyping the transformation of the workforce, which they contend no longer consists solely of human-to-human collaboration but also of human-to-AI agent collaboration. It’s the era of the agentic enterprise or the proliferation of Frontier Firms—whichever marketing label you prefer. Yet, despite all the pronouncements that AI agents will accelerate […]
AWS Scales Its Free Student Coding Program 12x, From 11 Universities to 132
Amazon Web Services is expanding its free student coding program twelvefold. On Tuesday, the company opened Kiro for Students to 121 more universities across 18 countries. It’s a jump from the 11 campuses it started with in the U.S. and Canada. Students at all 132 schools need only a university email and a one-minute SheerID […]
Adobe Brings Photoshop, Firefly, Express, and Other Pro Tools Into Slack
Adobe is continuing its effort to bring Creative Cloud to where its users are. The company announced on Wednesday that it has brought more than 70 pro-grade tools from its creative and productivity suites, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and more, into Slack. When users install Adobe for Slack, they […]
Glean Bets the Enterprise AI Fight Will Be Won on Context
An AI agent that doesn’t know your company burns money trying to prove it. That’s the argument Glean is making as it pitches why context is critical to the success of any enterprise AI program. At its annual customer conference, Glean:GO, in San Francisco this past week, that was the only thing the company wanted […]
Adobe Firefly Graduates Its Audio Tools and Adds a Free Tier to Its AI Assistant
Sound is usually the last thing a creator adds to a project, and the first thing anyone watching it notices. It’s also the point where the work stops. The edit is finished, the pacing is right, and then comes the detour: out to a stock library, through a licensing page, into a subscription in search […]
Agent Plugins Explained: What the New AI Standard Actually Does
You may think of the agentic world as the Wild West, but over the past two years, technologists have been developing rules of the road. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol settled how agents access external tools. Google’s Agent2Agent and Cisco-backed AGNTCY took on the question of how agents reach each other. Now, there’s Agent Plugins, a […]
Adobe’s AI Collaborators Turn Outside AI Agents Into Governed Workfront Teammates
At the Adobe Summit last April, the company announced the Workflow Optimization Agent designed to automate “intelligent, connected actions” across workflows. Four months later, the agent—since rebranded as AI Collaborator—is now generally available. Through Adobe Workfront, the company’s work management application, users can delegate work to these virtual teammates similarly to how they might with […]
Why AWS Built Dogwood, an Open-Source Policy Language That Limits What AI Agents Can Do Over Time
You’ve tasked your AI agent to process vendor payments on your behalf. An invoice arrives one day, and the agent autonomously handles the transaction. It runs like clockwork—until the morning you find your bank account overdrawn. Digging in, you discover payments to vendors who never submitted an invoice and, in a few cases, never delivered […]