'AI agents' driving major shift in freelance hiring, Malt CEO says

The company’s latest agentic AI tools promise faster enterprise automation, but the more revealing story is the infrastructure AWS is building to monitor and contain them.

There’s no shortage of agentic AI tools out there that offer to perform online tasks on your behalf, if only you’ll give them all your passwords and credit card details. The trouble starts when those agents don’t know when to stop — or when others don’t know to stop them. In Estonia, the country’s AI Council has plans to change that, proposing to issue government-backed digital identities for AI agents that spell out what powers a person or company is willing to delegate to them. “In the future, AI will increasingly perform digital operations on behalf of a person, company, or institution,” said Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal in a news release. “To do this, it must be clear who is acting, on whose behalf, with what rights, and who is responsible.” He supported the AI Council’s proposal to create a digital identity for AI agents that will define agents’ rights and enable them to act in a verifiable and auditable manner. The ID could, the council suggests, show whether an agent i

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RELAI has launched a verifiable continual learning platform for AI agents, and announced $6.9 million in total funding to scale it. The funding includes a newly secured $5.4 million pre-seed round led by .406 Ventureswith participation from AITFund (“AI Tinkerers Fund”) and other strategic investors, along with $1.5 million in prior investment support from Non […]

Tenet Security's emergence highlights the urgent need for robust AI oversight to prevent potential disruptions across diverse industries. The post Tenet Security emerges from stealth with $6M to police AI agents before they go rogue appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

First came vector databases, then RAG. Now, the next frontier in enterprise AI is taking shape: context layers that give autonomous agents a shared understanding of the business, a vision Databricks is advancing with Genie Ontology. Currently in preview, Genie Ontology automatically extracts business context from enterprise data, dashboards, queries, pipelines, documents, and applications and organizes it into a living graph that AI agents can use to understand how an organization operates. Showcased at the company’s Data + AI Summit, Genie Ontology uses a ranking system inspired by Google’s PageRank to identify the most authoritative business definitions within an organization. Rather than treating all sources equally, it weighs factors including who created the information, how widely it is used, its links to certified datasets and assets, and how recently it was updated before determining which answer an AI agent should rely on, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said during his keynote late

The G7 summit is wrapping up in the French city of Evian, with the agenda dominated by questions of tech sovereignty and protection of minors on social media. All G7 members are in favour of a social media ban for teenagers, with the UK already introducing one and France thinking of introducing one in the near future. But disagreements persist, on the topic of AI for example. FRANCE 24's Philip Turle takes a look at the last day's objectives from Evian.

NeuralTrust raised $20M in seed funding led by Alstin Capital to help enterprises secure, track, and control AI agents at scale.

AWS introduces Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from customer's secured AWS environment. You can focus on building agents instead of manually adding web search to agents on Bedrock AgentCore and managing its infrastructure.