How AI Agents Actually Work: A Plain-English Guide
Strip away the marketing and an AI agent is simple: a model that can take actions, see what happens and decide what's…
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Every prompt/power story on AI agents, including “How AI Agents Actually Work: A Plain-English Guide” and “6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the 2026 AI Boom…
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6 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the 2026 AI Boom
The loudest AI takes of 2026 are 'it changes everything' and 'it's all a bubble.' Both are wrong in checkable ways. Six…
How to Lock Down Your Accounts Before You Let an AI Agent Act for You
AI agents now log in, click and buy for you. A 30-minute pre-flight checklist so a hijacked agent can't take your whole…
Anthropic Says Its AI Found a CRISPR-Like System. Scientists Say It Found a Shape, Not a Breakthrough.
Claude and a swarm of agents flagged an enzyme system shaped like CRISPR. Whether it does anything useful is unknown, and Anthropic…
DoorDash Wants You to Stop Opening the App
DoorDash's new AI agent takes orders by text in Apple Messages, and it's piloting drones. The friction it removes is also the…
Muse Hit #1. Then Amazon Slammed the Door and a Zero-Day Walked In.
Meta's shopping agent hit #1 in a week. Then Amazon locked it out and a researcher turned it into a Mac backdoor.…
How the AI-Agent Safety Reckoning Built Up
Autonomous agents shipped into real workflows this year, then the incident logs filled up. How a capability story became a safety story.
Ando Raised $20M to Give AI Agents a Seat in the Chat. The Hard Part Is What Happens Next.
A Thiel Fellow's startup wants to replace Slack with a workspace where AI agents get their own identity, inbox and voice. The…
Island Raises $400M to Sell the Agent Economy Its Insurance Policy
A $6.4 billion valuation for a locked-down browser is a bet that enterprises will pay to watch, and throttle, their own AI…
Amazon Hands Your Storefront to an Agent. It Also Hands You the Bill.
Amazon opened Seller Central to outside AI agents, with Claude first in beta, and quietly made sellers accountable for whatever the agent…