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A good sales meeting can create an afternoon of administrative work. The buyer wants a revised business case, finance needs a calculator, and the purchasing timeline has changed. An AI assistant may produce a useful draft, but a salesperson still has to move it into the documents and plans everyone is using.

Here’s the kind of story that did the rounds in early 2026. Someone spins up an AI agent on a cheap server, gives it a personality, and lets it loose online. Within days it has a pen pal on the other side of the world. The two write to each other several times a day.…

One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you’ll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to listen, watch or record users’ activity all the time and gather all…

AI adoption’s main villain is safety. We’ve been seeing incidents of data exfiltration and confused deputy attacks. It happens because an LLM is probably the weakest link in the system.

This time last year, I released a Deeplearning.ai course with Andrew Ng on Governing AI agents with the goal of educating developers on the basics of data protection for effective and responsible agent deployment. The motivation for the course came from IBM’s 2025 breach study, which found 97% of the organizations that suffered an AI-related…

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person. 

Charles Lamanna, the Microsoft executive who oversees Microsoft 365 and the platform behind Copilot, says most business software will end up running behind AI agents rather than in front of users. That’s bad news for a lot of apps.

I’m tasked with building agents to augment some of our internal work. These agents need to research the internet, talk to internal recipe for prompt injection disasters. As Simon Willison calls it, the lethal trifecta

While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction.

I built the whole thing in pure Python and ran the tests myself, with the results shown as pass or fail.