Business
Every guide to adopting AI agents tells you the same thing: start small. It is good advice and completely useless, because it never says which small thing. "Start small" with the wrong first task is how a promising pilot turns into a cautionary tale that scares a team
Business
If you use an AI tool anywhere near hiring, promotions, or how you manage staff, the EU has a date for you: August 2, 2026. That is when the bulk of the high-risk rules in the EU AI Act start to apply, and "high-risk" is not some exotic
Trends
Pick almost any analyst report and the headline number for AI agents lands in roughly the same place. MarketsandMarkets puts the category at $7.84 billion in 2025 and $52.62 billion by 2030, a 46.3% compound annual growth rate. Grand View lands near $50 billion by 2030. BCC
Product
Until this week, connecting one of your AI employees to Gmail meant a field trip. You opened the Google Cloud Console, created a project, registered an OAuth app, picked the right scopes, pasted client IDs into a config screen, and then waited on a verification process that treats every small
AI Agents
This was the week the agent market stopped pitching and started buying. Salesforce wrote a $3.6 billion check for a customer-service agent, Microsoft quietly flipped its Office agents from "suggest" to "do," and a Chinese lab open-sourced a frontier model just to make the whole
Business
When you sort what companies actually hand to AI agents, one category runs away with it. In a breakdown of over 400 classified requests through one agent platform, sales and SDR work came in first at 38.6%, more than double the next category (marketing at 14.9%, operations at
Future of Work
There is a line in Info-Tech Research Group's 2026 IT Talent Trends report that deserves more attention than it got: technical skills remain essential, but they are no longer enough to distinguish you. In a workforce being reshaped by AI, the report argues, the differentiator is the uniquely
Engineering
The benchmarks tell a confusing story. On OSWorld, the standard test for agents that operate a real computer, the best systems now score around 82% while well-known names sit down at 22 to 38%. Stanford's AI Index shows the field as a whole jumping from 12% to 66%
Business
For about two years, the honest answer to "what is the ROI on an AI agent" was a shrug and a slide deck. The numbers were either vendor fantasy or too early to trust. That has changed. The 2026 data is in, it is specific, and it is
AI Agents
Apple finally picked a side, Salesforce's agents started out-working its humans, and the payment networks quietly built the plumbing that lets agents spend money on their own. Week 24 was the week agents stopped being a feature and started being infrastructure. Eight stories, with our takes. 1. Apple
Trends
Here is a number that should make every automation vendor nervous. IDC projects that spending on AI agent platforms will reach $143 billion by 2027, and it says a large chunk of that comes directly out of the budget that used to go to robotic process automation and the older
Future of Work
There is a quiet identity crisis happening in engineering right now, and the data backs it up. CIO reported that the engineer of 2026 spends less time writing foundational code and more time orchestrating a portfolio of agents, components, and external services. If you write software for a living, you