Navigating the agentic future.
AgentsDB is a new project dedicated to covering the fast-evolving landscape of AI agents, product launches, ecosystem players, and the trends shaping tomorrow’s intelligent systems. Our mission is to make sense of this transformation and guide you through it with clarity and depth.
What's happening today?
Cisco’s WebexOne 2025 makes collaboration an agent platform
At WebexOne 2025, Cisco unveiled Connected Intelligence, shifting Webex from a meetings suite to an agent platform. New AI agents span meetings, devices, and contact centers with deep ties to Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS.
Interface Is the New API: Browser-Native Agents Arrive
Browser-native agents use pixels and forms to run apps without private APIs, closing the last mile of SaaS integration. Expect an Affordance War, formal agent agreements, and a shift from UI to protocol.
Replit Agent 3 Goes Autonomous: Build, Test, Ship
Replit Agent 3 turns coding assistants into autonomous builders that write, run, and fix apps in a real browser. See what changed, what to build first, and a practical playbook for safe and cost-aware adoption.
Perplexity’s $200 Email Agent Brings Accountable Autonomy
Perplexity just moved from talk to task with an email agent that works inside Gmail and Outlook. It drafts, files, schedules, and acts under policy. Here is how accountable autonomy in the inbox changes the game.
When Agents Buy: ChatGPT Checkout meets Stripe ACP
Agentic commerce just got real. ChatGPT now offers Instant Checkout with Stripe’s scoped tokens and the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Here is how it works, what changes for ranking and risk, and what merchants should do next.
The Memory Threshold: After the Million Token Context
AI just crossed the memory threshold. With million token windows and hardware built for context, entire codebases, videos, and institutional archives now fit in working memory. Here is how to design for it.
Autonomous pentesting goes live as Strix opens its agent
On October 3, 2025, Strix released an open source AI hacking agent that moves autonomous pentesting from research to production. Learn how it works, what it changes for SDLC and governance, and how to ship it safely.
Browser-Native Agents: Gemini 2.5’s Computer Use Arrives
Google's Gemini 2.5 brings computer use to the browser, letting agents see, plan, and act on real interfaces. Learn how the loop works, what is new, and how to build safe, auditable automations that scale.
Civic GPUs: Governments Are Building an AI Commons
A public compute turn is reshaping AI. From NAIRR in the United States to Isambard-AI in the U.K. and EuroHPC AI Factories in Europe, governments are wiring access rules that encode democratic values into the stack.
The Inflection for Coding Agents: Cursor’s Browser Hooks
Cursor's late September update added browser control and runtime hooks, shifting coding agents from helpers to reliable operators. This guide shows how to build guardrails, policy, and evidence loops that ship fixes faster.
The AI Interest Rate: How Compute Pushes Up Neutral r*
AI is no longer just software. The buildout of chips, data centers, and power is lifting desired investment and nudging the neutral rate higher. See how compute behaves like capital and how to plan for it.
AgentKit compresses the agent stack so you can ship fast
OpenAI unveiled AgentKit on October 6, 2025, unifying agent design, orchestration, evals, chat, and data connectors in one toolkit. See what shipped, what it replaces, and a practical plan to go from pilot to production in days.
The Savings Layer Arrives: Inside Price.com’s AI Shopping Agent
Price.com has launched a beta shopping agent that blends product discovery with coupons, cash back, price history, and price match logic. Here is how a savings layer could reshape feeds, affiliates, and margins fast.
Databricks Agent Bricks makes AgentOps an automated pipeline
Agent Bricks debuted in Beta on June 11, 2025. A September 25 partnership with OpenAI brought frontier models into Databricks. Learn how it turns hand-tuned prompts into auto-evaluated, MLflow-traced agent pipelines you can operate at scale.
Benchmarks Break Back: The End of Static AI Leaderboards
Two headlines changed how we should measure AI. Models are learning the shape of tests, and California now requires real incident reporting. Static leaderboards cannot keep up. Here is a practical blueprint for live, adversarial audits.
Publishers Go On Offense With ProRata Gist Answers
A startup flips AI search economics by letting publishers host LLM answers on their own sites, license from a 700 plus source network, and share revenue. Here is why it matters and how to ship a production launch fast.
Twilio ConversationRelay makes phone lines an agent platform
Twilio’s ConversationRelay turns a phone number into a production voice agent with interruption handling, real time analytics, and secure handoff to humans. This guide shows how to launch a safe, latency tuned agent in 90 days.
ChatGPT Becomes the New OS: The Platform Wars Ahead
OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into more than a chatbot. With apps that run inside conversations, enterprise controls, and real pilots like Sora 2 at Mattel, a new platform layer is forming and the stakes are rising.