All articles tagged with #agentic ai
Originally Published 3 days ago — by Microsoft Source
Microsoft announced new agentic AI solutions to enhance retail operations, including intelligent automation across merchandising, marketing, and store management, with features like Copilot Checkout for seamless shopping, personalized shopping agents, catalog enrichment, and store assistant tools, aiming to improve efficiency, customer engagement, and decision-making in retail.
Originally Published 3 days ago — by Financial Times
The article discusses the emergence of agentic AI and its potential impact on quantitative research, highlighting the transformative role of advanced AI technologies in the field, alongside promoting digital journalism subscriptions from the Financial Times.
Originally Published 24 days ago — by Yahoo Finance
Lovable, an AI software startup based in Stockholm, raised $330 million in a funding round that valued it at $6.6 billion, driven by surging demand for AI-assisted coding tools and 'vibe coding' applications, with major investors including Alphabet's CapitalG and Nvidia's venture arm, as the company expands its features and infrastructure.
Originally Published 2 months ago — by Fortune
Agentic AI is rapidly transforming the workforce by enabling professionals to work alongside autonomous AI agents, leading to new roles, organizational structures, and opportunities for innovation, with organizations needing to build robust data and management systems to thrive in this new era.
Originally Published 2 months ago — by Harvard Business Review
Designing successful agentic AI systems requires organizations to reorient workflows around outcomes, appoint mission owners, and foster cross-functional collaboration, moving beyond simple process tweaks to fully integrate AI into their operations.
Originally Published 3 months ago — by Business Insider
Apple's former CEO John Sculley states that OpenAI is now Apple's main competitor in the AI space, highlighting that AI has not been a strong suit for Apple and emphasizing the need for the company to shift from the apps era to the agentic AI era, which involves autonomous, task-performing AI agents.
Originally Published 3 months ago — by Lifehacker
Perplexity has made its AI-powered Comet browser available for free to all users, allowing easy download and setup without a subscription. The browser features an agentic AI that can perform tasks on the internet on your behalf, such as opening links, summarizing pages, and more, offering a glimpse into the future of AI-assisted browsing.
Originally Published 5 months ago — by Android Authority
The article discusses how the new AI-powered browser Comet, built on Chromium, enhances the YouTube experience by allowing users to get video summaries, act on content (like ordering ingredients), and perform tasks more efficiently with its Comet Assistant, making browsing and content consumption more productive and interactive.
Originally Published 5 months ago — by The Verge
The reviewer tests Amazon's new Alexa Plus, which no longer requires specific voice commands and features an ambitious but still limited agentic AI that aims to act on users' behalf. While it understands natural speech better and can manage tasks like booking tickets or fixing appliances, its capabilities are currently restricted by reliance on specific services and lack of web-wide browsing, making it not yet a full replacement for a personal assistant.
Originally Published 5 months ago — by 9to5Google
Google is expanding its AI capabilities with the rollout of Deep Search and Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Mode for subscribers, enabling more complex queries, detailed responses, and in-depth research tools. Additionally, new agentic AI features now allow Search to call businesses for pricing and availability, enhancing user interaction and decision-making. These features are initially available to US users and aim to become more widely accessible.
Originally Published 6 months ago — by TechCrunch
AI coding tools are shifting from traditional code editors to terminal-based interfaces, with major labs releasing command-line AI tools that interact directly with system shells, potentially transforming software development by enabling more versatile and environment-aware AI assistance.
Originally Published 6 months ago — by Engadget
OpenAI is close to launching its own web browser within weeks, featuring a ChatGPT-style chatbot and agentic AI capabilities, aiming to integrate more deeply into users' lives and capture user data, potentially challenging established browsers like Chrome, which is built on Chromium and currently dominates the market.
Originally Published 6 months ago — by theregister.com
AI agents currently perform poorly in office tasks, with success rates around 30-35%, and many marketed as 'agentic AI' are not truly autonomous. Studies by CMU and Salesforce highlight significant limitations and failures, with Gartner predicting most agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 due to high costs and unclear value, though adoption is expected to grow by 2028.
Originally Published 7 months ago — by CNET
Agentic AI refers to autonomous artificial intelligence systems capable of independently making decisions and taking actions to achieve goals, moving beyond passive tools to proactive agents that can sense, decide, and act without human input, with applications across various industries and potential risks and benefits.
Originally Published 7 months ago — by TechCrunch
Amazon is launching a new R&D group within its consumer product division, based at Lab126, to focus on developing agentic AI for use in robotics and warehouse automation.