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Agentic Commerce Needs a New Checkout
Agentic Commerce Needs a New Checkout For twenty years, online commerce has been built around a simple assumption: a human is sitting in front of a screen, comparing options, clicking buttons, entering payment details, and confirming the purchase. Agentic commerce breaks that assumption.
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?
Seattle’s SageOx lands $15M to help humans and AI agents work in lockstep
Milkana Brace, Ryan Snodgrass and Ajit Banerjee. (SageOx Photo) SageOx, a Seattle startup building tools for teams where
Coder Sets a New Standard for AI Coding with Self-Hosted, AI Model Agnostic Coder Agents
New native agent architecture enables enterprises to run AI-driven development workflows with full governance over infrastructure, data, and models Coder Sets a New Standard for AI Coding Coder today announced the beta release of Coder Agents.
Luxury Presence Launches the New Presence® Platform — the AI Growth System That Helps Agents Attract Clients, Turn Their Database Into Deals, and Build Lifelong Relationships
Luxury Presence, the leading growth platform trusted by more than 87,000 residential real estate agents and brands, today unveiled the new Presence® Platform, the first unified growth platform for real estate's top performers.
Research: Why You Shouldn’t Treat AI Agents Like Employees
As organizations experiment with placing AI agents on org charts as “employees,” new research shows this framing has unintended consequences. In a large-scale experiment, anthropomorphizing AI reduced individual accountability,
Anthropic's new AI agents spark finance job disruption debate
Anthropic has unveiled 10 AI agents designed to automate complex tasks in banking and financial services, from KYC checks to pitchbook creation, deepening its push into the sector. The launch has triggered both enthusiasm for productivity gains and concern ...
Lucidworks Unveils AI Agent Purpose-Built for Delivering Grounded Answers Where Generic Chatbots Fail
New AI agent answers technical product questions with unparalleled accuracy, helping retailers convert shoppers into buyersSAN FRANCISCO, May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lucidworks, the leader in AI-powered search and discovery solutions,
Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft’s Azure-based AI development and deployment platform shines with a strong selection of models and agent types and an excellent playground for experimenting with agents.
AI agents in Microsoft 365 demand urgent security overhaul
Security experts warn that autonomous AI agents like Microsoft 365 Copilot are expanding enterprise attack surfaces by operating with broad data access and limited oversight. Misconfigured permissions ...
eGain Launches AI Agent IVA to Deliver Accurate, Conversational Customer Service
Intelligent Virtual Agent brings trusted knowledge to every customer conversationSUNYVALE, Calif., May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) today announced the launch of AI Agent IVA, an ...
Anthropic Claude launches 10 AI agents for banks: Will AI replace finance jobs?
Anthropic has launched 10 AI agents for the finance sector to automate tasks like analysis, compliance, and reporting. Built on the Claude platform, these tools aim to boost efficiency while raising ...
Banking jobs at risk? Anthropic AI agents can now handle KYC, audits and more
Anthropic launches 10 AI agents for banks to automate KYC, audits and financial reports, sparking debate over AI replacing entry-level finance jobs.
Anthropic Claude Launches 10 AI Agents for Banks, Targets Everyday Finance Workflows
Anthropic has launched 10 pre-built AI agents powered by Claude to streamline finance workflows, from research and pitch decks to compliance checks and ledger reconciliation. Integrated with Microsoft ...
Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.
eGain AI Agent Deepens Salesforce Service Cloud Integration with Contextual Knowledge and AI Assistance
Embedded AI knowledge, case summarization, and KCS workflows support where agents already work, so teams resolve cases faster SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- eGain (NASDAQ: EGAN) ...
One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it
CLI-Anything generates SKILL.md files that AI agents trust and execute. Snyk found 13.4% of agent skills contain critical security issues. No SAST or SCA scanner detects malicious instructions at the agent integration layer.
Anthropic Announces New AI Agents For Financial Professionals
As part of the new offerings, Anthropic said it is enabling its Claude AI model to work better across third-party software like Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and integrate data from partners in the ...
AI agents are breaking web economics, but Cloudflare says x402 can help
The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content." ...
Anthropic launches AI agents for Wall Street's grunt work
Anthropic introduced 10 AI agents for the finance industry on Tuesday, adding to the tools already available from buzzy startups and firms themselves.
Solana rolls out Pay.sh with Google Cloud to bring pay-per-use API payments to AI
Solana and Google Cloud introduce Pay.sh, enabling AI agents to pay per API call, hinting at a shift from subscriptions.
Yield.xyz and Privy Integrate to Bring Guard-Railed Yield Agents to DeFi
Yield.xyz and Privy release the first agent stack where every transaction is bounded by user-defined policies, with the
Nvidia and ServiceNow team up on OpenClaw-style AI agent
Nvidia and ServiceNow are joining together to launch ServiceNow’s new Project Arc, an enterprise AI agent similar to the popular OpenClaw platform that lives on users’ desktop ...
Anthropic launches 10 AI agents for banks and insurers
The Claude maker says the tools can handle pitchbooks, credit memos, KYC screening, and month-end close tasks out of the box ...
Google is building an AI agent that could be its answer to OpenClaw
Employees are testing a new "24/7 personal agent" internally called "Remy" that can integrate across Google's other services.
ServiceNow expands AI agent governance through deeper integration with Microsoft
ServiceNow announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft that brings order to the chaos of AI agent sprawl.
Agents, human agency, and the opportunity for every organization
As AI and agents take on execution, our own agency expands. The question is whether organizations are built to capture it.
Airbyte Agents Launched to Fix the Data Problem Breaking AI Agents
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, today launched Airbyte Agents, a context layer that gives production-grade agents direct access to a unified, search-optimized index of an ...
Anthropic introduces 10 new finance-focused AI agents for enterprise use
Anthropic has launched a suite of finance-focused AI agents within its Claude platform to automate banking, research, and compliance workflows ...
WSO2 launches Agent Manager to help enterprises tame AI agent sprawl
Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unifie ...