Is an AI agent is your new coworker? Make sure to lean into your humanness

Perplexity has opened its Personal Computer feature to all Mac users through a new desktop app, bringing local AI agent capabilities beyond its previous Max subscriber waitlist. The tool extends Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer product onto users’ own devices, giving AI agents access to local files, native Mac applications, over 400 connectors, and the web to […]

Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic workflows.  The post The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory appeared first on Towards Data Science.

A company executive explains the thinking and purpose behind this new generative AI tool, called Mateo, which aims to help transportation officials surface insights from complex data via natural conversation.

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook," explains Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. The Legal Agent can work with existing documents that have tracked changes, and analyz … Read the full story at The Verge.

A class at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business uses an AI agent to record student conversations, analyze their contributions and offer feedback. Students say they find its thoroughness and neutrality helpful.

An AI agent designed to speed up a company's coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming.

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Mario asked me why 18% of his shipments were late when every team hit their target. I built a live simulation, connected an AI agent, and let it investigate. The post I Simulated an International Supply Chain and Let OpenClaw Monitor It appeared first on Towards Data Science.