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Harry Kraemer and colleagues from Kellogg argue that business leaders must prepare for the rapid rise of AI agents capable of performing complex cognitive tasks. They suggest that executives should focus on new opportunities rather than just cost cutting and verify that agents are reliable enough for sensitive work in fields like medicine and law….
The Agentic AI Foundation announced four new projects at a conference in San Jose on October 22, 2026. The additions include Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face, and OpenSandbox from Alibaba. These projects cover agent capabilities, model interoperability, training environments, and secure execution. The foundation now hosts ten projects,…
A new technical guide details the architecture and implementation of AI agents using the .NET ecosystem. The article explains core components like the control loop, tool calling, and memory management to help developers structure autonomous systems. It also covers critical safety measures, including guardrails, human-in-the-loop design, and protection against prompt injection. The guide emphasizes that…
Rudolf Rojas, an IT program manager at the USDA, stated that government staffing and resource cuts make keeping a human in the loop for AI tasks untenable. He argued that agencies must use AI tools to perform work and report back, relying on zero-trust principles and minimal privileges for security. Rojas also called for national…
For fresh graduates and experienced professionals, the best way to demonstrate AI proficiency is to provide examples of actual work. Candidates need to demonstrate practical capabilities to show that they can work effectively with AI.
A team led by Paweł Oświęcimka developed an agent-based model to investigate how multifractal behavior emerges in stock markets. The simulation uses simple rules where agents trade based on local positions and overall market sentiment. The researchers found that complex multifractal dynamics appear spontaneously at the boundary between collective action and individual freedom. This work…
Employers are prioritizing precise hiring for AI skills, with 72% of surveyed managers increasing pay for relevant expertise. CompTIA data shows 349,821 active IT job listings in September required AI skills, representing over half of all active postings. Robert Half reports AI engineer salaries ranging from $154,500 to $196,750, while AI architects earn between $145,250…
The Department of Homeland Security released an updated directive governing internal artificial intelligence use that took effect in September. The policy retains a prohibition on using AI for large-scale monitoring or predicting future behavior, despite a recent $125 million contract with Thomson Reuters Special Services for surveillance capabilities. A significant change allows the agency's chief…
Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI team released OpenGCUA, an open-source stack that acts as a generalist computer-use agent. The system improves the mean partial-score of eight frontier models by 19.6 points on the OSWorld-v2 benchmark. It also reduces the number of steps required per task by 53.0 percent compared to a baseline. The release includes a macOS harness,…