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Types of AI Agents and Their Uses Explained
It’s anyone’s guess that action-driven AI agents are going to drive the AI revolution, and the early signs are already here. From AI chatbots to AI agents that can read your emails and book appointments, we are about to enter the agentic era. So to better understand AI agents, I have explained different types of AI agents in great detail.…
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‘No AI Agents are Allowed.’ EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings
Image: Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash The EU is banning the use of AI-powered virtual assistants during online meetings. Such assistants are often used to transcribe, take notes, or even record visuals and audio during a video conference. In a presentation from the European Commission delivered to European Digital Innovation Hubs earlier this month, there is a note on the “Online Meeting Etiquette”…
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AI agents will be like Iron Man’s Jarvis – Computerworld
“I think that it’s all about education that we’re going to need to make sure people are well trained, well educated — they can reskill.” — Marc Benioff Companies, he said, have to invest in reskilling workers, rather than just “making promises” there won’t be layoffs. Salesforce, he said, is investing in reskilling, but he also stressed the importance of…
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Adobe is building AI agents for Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Adobe Photoshop’s agentic AI, or what the company calls its “creative agent,” will be presented in a new floating Actions panel that will recommend context-aware edits after analyzing your photo. For instance, it will be able to suggest removing people standing in the background or creating a greater depth of field by blurring everything behind the subject. All you need…
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Salesforce wants technicians and tradespeople to take AI agents on the road with them
Tradespeople and technicians spend almost a full day every week filling out paperwork and completing admin tasks, and it’s having a huge impact on productivity. Salesforce thinks its agentic AI tools could be the key to solving this. A survey conducted by the firm showed respondents waste an average of seven hours per week inputting manual data, summarizing jobs, and…
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AI agents can (and will) be scammed – Computerworld
Generative AI’s newest superstars — independent-acting agents — are on a tear. Organizations are adopting the technology at a staggering rate because they can use APIs or be embedded with standard apps and automate all kinds of business processes. An IDC report predicts that within three years, 40% of Global 2000 businesses will be using AI agents and workflows to…
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Microsoft adds data agents to Fabric to help business users with analytics – Computerworld
Natural-language interaction Triggered by natural-language queries, the agents can complete tasks such as retrieving data, reasoning, and creating data visualizations. Ulag said the agents should be able to deal with prompts such as, “Can you analyze all my customer survey questions, comments, focus on all the negative comments, categorize them into the top five buckets and give me examples?” That…
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Want to Build AI Agents? Anthropic and Databricks Can Help
Generative AI companies Anthropic and Databricks have teamed up to sell AI tools for business, trying to raise $100 million in five years, according to the Wall Street Journal. The partnership is an attempt to alleviate both companies being “under tremendous pressure” to perform relative to their valuations as the AI bubble threatens to burst. What will the Anthropic/Databricks partnership…
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Microsoft’s newest AI agents can detail how they reason
If you’re wondering how AI agents work, Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents provide real-time answers on how data is being analyzed and sourced to reach results. The Researcher and Analyst agents, announced on Tuesday, take a deeper look at data sources such as email, chat or databases within an organization to produce research reports, analyze strategies, or convert raw information into…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot’s ‘First-of-Their-Kind Reasoning Agents’ — Here’s What They Do
Microsoft is adding two new AI reasoning agents to its Microsoft 365 Copilot suite: Researcher and Analyst. These AI agents are designed to streamline workflows by handling multi-step processes that typically require significant time and expertise. The tech giant introduced these reasoning agents, which Microsoft says are “first-of-their-kind,” as part of its continued push to make AI a core part…
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