The AI Agent Security Surface: What Gets Exposed When You Add Tools and Memory

Fight the FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete). Automated work still requires human judgement.

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 […]

Most AI agents are stuck in their ways. Built once, they repeat the same patterns regardless of the task at hand. But new research suggests a smarter path forward: agents that get sharper with every challenge they face...

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At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered in the last decade, plus some new ones. In Microsoft’s own words, “Foundry consolidates several previous Azure AI services and tools into a unified platform” and “unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping.” Microsoft Foundry helps application developers to build and deploy agents, which may use models and tools. It also helps machine learning (ML) engineers and data scientists to fine-tune models, run evaluations, and manage model deployments. Finally, it helps IT administrators and platform engineers to govern AI resources, enforce policies, and manage access across teams. It isn’t quite a floor wax and a dessert topping, but it does try to serve three distinct audiences. Key capabilities of Microsoft Foundry for building agents include multi-agent orchestration, workflows, a tool catalog, memory, knowledge integration, and publishing. Key cap

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.

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