Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
… With access to your email and messages, the AI agent can attempt tasks tailored to your workload. …
… With access to your email and messages, the AI agent can attempt tasks tailored to your workload. …
… Given the current backlash against AI taking jobs, I wonder if future agents—trained on an internet filled with anger towards AI firms—might express even more militant views. This is an edition of Will Knight’s AI Lab newsletter. …
… One of the main measures of success when trying this agent will be how often it goes off the rails. “Spark operates under your direction,” reads Google’s announcement blog about the agent. “You choose whether to turn it on and what apps it connects to, and it’s designed to ask you first before perf… …
… They also developed CaP-Agent0, an agentic framework that boosts the performance of coding models so much that they beat models trained to control a robot’s movements directly on some manipulation tasks. …
… Cursor has also started training in-house AI models that it can cost effectively serve to customers. The startup recently launched Composer 2, an AI model based on an open-source system from the Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, that Cursor did additional pretraining and post-training on. …
… Agents Love Shopping To help you manage all of your online shopping, Google will start deploying an agentic-powered shopping experience. As you search for products, Google will show you listings that it hosts for products for sale at various retailers. …
… Over time, Arm may expand into more general-purpose CPUs, while AMD and Intel develop chips tailored for agentic AI. …
… Google’s help page offers this example: “A malicious instruction could tell the agent to take your private info from your emails or documents and post it on a public website, send your emails in Gmail to an external service without you knowing, expose insights about you based on your data in connec… …
… An AI Agent Snafu Triggered a Security Incident at Meta Agentic AI tools have the potential to transform companies’ efficiency—or make costly and dangerous errors. …
… But as Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code offered new agentic coding experiences, GitHub Copilot was starting to feel stuck in an earlier era of AI. OpenAI coming out with yet another coding product wouldn’t help. …