As a software reporter at WIRED, I’ve tested a lot of shitty agents over the past couple of years. These experiences expose a consistent pattern…
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VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory |
Nicholas Leonard and Derek Caneja wanted to build AI voice agents, but when they went to build the product, they felt many of these voice…
A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google's AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she's wrong |
Shortly after Google announced its new Universal Commerce Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economics watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post…
Slackbot is an AI agent now |
Slackbot, the automated assistant baked into the Salesforce-owned corporate messaging platform Slack, is entering a new era as an AI agent. And Salesforce CTO Parker…
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have been sharing…
Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it’s back |
Over the past few days, several posts on LinkedIn and Twitter/X went viral after one of the most talked about AI companies in San Francisco…
Yes, LinkedIn banned AI agent startup Artisan, but now it's back |
Over the past few days, several posts on LinkedIn and Twitter/X went viral after one of the most talked about AI companies in San Francisco…
The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here
For years, the cost of using “free” services from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other Big Tech firms has been handing over your data. Uploading your…
Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2 |
4:18 PM PST · December 11, 2025 Google released on Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed…
Introducing the AI Agent: The Newest Member of Your IT Team
</span> <span itemprop=”> The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting…