Agents

Articles under the Agents category.

Atlas Agent Mode: The Browser Becomes an AI Runtime

Atlas Agent Mode: The Browser Becomes an AI Runtime

ChatGPT Atlas introduces Agent Mode, a supervised browser agent that navigates, fills forms, and stages tasks inside the page. See how micro-permissions and memory reshape checkout and everyday productivity.

Oracle puts AI agents in the ERP and opens a store

Oracle puts AI agents in the ERP and opens a store

At Oracle AI World on October 15, 2025, Oracle embedded prebuilt agents inside Fusion ERP and launched an Agent Marketplace. Learn why system of record placement speeds adoption and how to prove ROI with real KPIs.

OpenAI AgentKit turns agent ideas into production reality

OpenAI AgentKit turns agent ideas into production reality

OpenAI’s AgentKit unifies Agent Builder, ChatKit, a Connector Registry, and upgraded Evals with reinforcement fine tuning to shrink agent deployment from weeks to days while adding governance, visibility, and control.

AP2 Arrives: Google’s open rails for agent-led checkout

AP2 Arrives: Google’s open rails for agent-led checkout

Google’s Agent Payments Protocol debuts as open, interoperable rails for agent checkout. Learn how AP2 layers with A2A and MCP, why signed mandates matter, and a stepwise plan to ship pilots before peak season.

GitHub Agent HQ: Mission Control for the Coding Agent Era

GitHub Agent HQ: Mission Control for the Coding Agent Era

GitHub reframes the repository as mission control for coding agents. With Agent HQ, AGENTS.md, a native MCP tool registry, and third party agent support, teams can orchestrate, govern, and measure software work at scale.

Agentforce 360 Makes Enterprise Agents Finally Real

Agentforce 360 Makes Enterprise Agents Finally Real

Salesforce just moved enterprise agents from slideware to production with Agentforce 360. See how marketplace components, outcome pricing, resilient operations, and native entry points add up, plus a 90-day plan you can run.

AWS AgentCore turns agent ops into an enterprise runtime

AWS AgentCore turns agent ops into an enterprise runtime

AWS Bedrock AgentCore elevates agent operations into a real platform with a secure runtime, memory, identity, gateway, and observability. Learn how to move from notebook demos to production fleets and what to do first.

Agent Bricks Turns AI Agents Into a Production Pipeline

Agent Bricks Turns AI Agents Into a Production Pipeline

Databricks is turning fragile demos into dependable agents. Agent Bricks assembles, evaluates, and packages task focused agents on governed data so teams can choose clear tradeoffs across accuracy, latency, and cost with audit trails in place.

Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol Lights Up AI Checkout

Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol Lights Up AI Checkout

Visa’s new Trusted Agent Protocol adds a cryptographically signed handshake that lets merchants recognize and transact with bona fide AI shopping agents. Backed by major processors, it sets up end to end checkout in 2026.

Vertex AI Agent Engine unlocks code execution and A2A

Vertex AI Agent Engine unlocks code execution and A2A

Google's Vertex AI Agent Engine just added secure code execution, Agent to Agent messaging, Memory Bank, streaming, and broader runtime pricing. Here is why cloud agent runtimes are arriving and how to ship with them.

Snowflake Cortex Agents Go GA: Warehouses Become Runtimes

Snowflake Cortex Agents Go GA: Warehouses Become Runtimes

On November 4, 2025, Snowflake made Cortex Agents generally available, shifting the data warehouse from answers to actions. Here is what that unlocks, why it matters, and how to ship real use cases in weeks.

Browser-native agents surge as Amazon sues Perplexity

Browser-native agents surge as Amazon sues Perplexity

Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity marks a tipping point for browser-native agents. The fight shifts from chat boxes to carts and checkout, forcing new norms for identity, consent, pacing, and standards on the open web.

ChatGPT Agent Goes Mainstream as Operator Becomes Mode

ChatGPT Agent Goes Mainstream as Operator Becomes Mode

OpenAI folded Operator into a unified ChatGPT Agent and put it in the apps millions already use. Here is what actually shipped, what is still gated, how it compares to Microsoft and Anthropic, and how to prepare your workflows.

Manus goes global and the consumer agent finally lands

Manus goes global and the consumer agent finally lands

In 2025, Manus went viral, OpenAI attached a virtual computer to ChatGPT, and Cloudflare hosted MCP. Together they reset how consumer agents work, ship, and make money heading into 2026.

Gemini Agent Mode lands on Home and Android, autonomy begins

Gemini Agent Mode lands on Home and Android, autonomy begins

Google is rolling out Gemini Agent Mode to Home and previewing it on Android and desktop. Here is what is actually shipping, why OS and home integration matters, and how developers can build for autonomous tasks.

Replit Agent 3 crosses autonomy threshold for developer agents

Replit Agent 3 crosses autonomy threshold for developer agents

Replit Agent 3 pushes developer agents beyond code suggestions. Live browser tests, automatic fixes, and agent spawned automations turn prompts into shipped features and set a clear playbook for autonomy in 2026.

AgentiX Arrives: AI Agents Take the Wheel in the SOC

AgentiX Arrives: AI Agents Take the Wheel in the SOC

Palo Alto Networks launched AgentiX inside Cortex Cloud 2.0 on October 28, 2025, positioning autonomous responders as the new engine of the SOC. Learn what to evaluate, which metrics matter, and how to run a safe 90-day pilot.

GitHub Agent HQ: Mission Control for Multi‑Vendor Agents

GitHub Agent HQ: Mission Control for Multi‑Vendor Agents

GitHub just put third party coding agents inside your normal branches, pull requests, and reviews. Learn how Agent HQ runs best of N workflows, enforces governance by default, and gives platform teams a single control pane.