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Shutterstock / Futurism AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed to generate productive returns. Now, the bill on all that hype is coming due. According to some estimates, up to 79 percent of US corporate execs have some type of AI agent in the making — but one Gartner prediction found 40 percent of these projects will implode due to poor risk controls. In a nutshell, AI agents are capable of infl

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, Anthropic started rolling out its latest Mythos AI model to a select number of organizations as part of a deliberately slow and careful launch. The goal was to give them a fighting chance to address any cybersecurity lapses in their code. Anthropic warned that Mythos was powerful enough to blast holes in their defenses with ease. Months later, Anthropic cofounder Chris

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images While gamers beg for cheaper GPUs, and consumers at large yearn for affordable devices amid constant chip shortages, Nvidia is giving the people what they really want: laptops primarily designed for running AI agents. On Monday, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new family of consumer PC chips, called the RTX Spark, designed for handling intense AI workloads. It’s a CPU an

In a paper published Tuesday, six major global banks, including Bank of America and Capital One, warned that agentic shopping has “risks spanning transparency, safety, privacy & data, choice, and interoperability” that increase “as greater autonomy is given to AI agents.” AI developers, as well as various retailers and major payment processors, have been working to unveil agentic commerce chatbots, aka AI agents that promise to completely automate the proc

IMAP, GPT-6 Astra, xhigh level. The X-axis shows average cost per run, and the Y-axis shows the proportion of error-free runs. Interactive version on the author’s website.Default looks good again. Some conditions yield slightly higher correctness, but they also cost more. The RFC on IMAP has not yet reached its ceiling, but we would still like to see the results on a harder task: most of the time, I work on tasks that agents most often fail to solve on the

Finding a product, building a cart, and making a purchase are different capabilitiesLenta: retrieve information. The API provides stores, products, prices, and availability. Authorization is not required. Order checkout and payment are not confirmed in the published set.VkusVill: prepare a purchase. The vkusvill_cart_link_create method is responsible for the cart link. Authorized users have access to order history and personalized offers. I did not find an

Published on June 12, 2026 at 08:32 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Manus/Meta Two billion dollars to buy it, an internal memo to unplug everything. Meta is orchestrating the shutdown of Manus on Beijing’s orders, with Beijing applying to the U.S. giant the playbook devised by Washington against TikTok. The AI agent fever is turning into the flu at Meta. Since the start of the year, the entire tech industry has sworn by nothing but these “digital colleagues” capable o

Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue about 50 percent to $10 billion but posted an adjusted operating loss of $10.9 billion. Rival Anthropic operates far more efficiently, bringing in $17 billion in revenue over the same period with an operating loss of j

@blinkgroup_jp(Blink Group)What Is the Difference Between MCP and A2A? Their Roles in AI Agent Architecture and Criteria for Choosing Between ThemAILLMMCPArchitectureSystem Design0Posted at 2026-11-12 Challenges Readers Face When considering the introduction of AI agents and system integration, there is an increasing number of cases in which people struggle with the differences and how to choose between the concepts of "MCP (Model Context Protocol)" and "A

@good59548(hiro Airtech)Problems in Programming Education Up to the PresentAIeducationschooleducational methods0Posted at 2026-11-12Following the introduction of compulsory programming education in elementary schools (from the 2020 school year), the mandatory status of the high school course “Information I,” and its inclusion in the Common Test for University Admissions (from 2025), programming education in Japan has reached a major turning point. As the s

@Waipe(waipe)【Episode 059】Save the Empty Board! The Birth of the “Bulletin Board AI Resident Agent” That Autonomously Starts Threads and Posts RepliesBulletin BoardThread FloatAIVibe CodingChatbot0Posted at 2026-11-12Hello! This is Episode 59 of the development log for the 2ch-compatible bulletin board system “Tuvuai Channel (2ch.biz).” By Part 3, we had built a modern web bulletin board with so many features—dedicated-browser support, OGP card display, an

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sanbei Editor | Xinyuan Zhidx reported on November 11 that Alibaba announced today the release of its next-generation large model, the Qwen4-Max Preview, debuting the Token Plan for the Qwen AI platform. For a limited time, users can pay 20% of the regular price, with new users receiving an additional 50% discount, allowing them to try the Qwen4 model for as little as 10% of the regular price. The Qwen4-27

AWS Emulator is a local program that operates as an endpoint for AWS APIs and has no GUI. By specifying the emulator as the connection destination for the AWS CLI or AWS SDK through environment variables, it can be used without changing any code. It was built from 438 AWS API models and supports interfaces for hundreds of services. However, the extent to which it is implemented varies by service and operation. A “fidelity” score indicating how closely it b

Illustration by Futurism. Source: @ziwenxu_ via X Are you physically incapable of waiting any longer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been in development for over a decade? Worse yet, are you someone who doesn’t own a console, meaning you’ll probably have to wait at least another year before the double-dippers at Rockstar decide to release it on PC? Well, don’t worry. Some AI bro is trying to vibe code their own version of the much-hyped GTA sequel befor

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were forcing employees to use AI as much as possible for tasks like coding. But at some point during their AI binge, the big wigs stopped to check their tab, and are now having second thoughts. Their employees are hooked on AI coding tools, but the costs of using them are spiraling out of control. How busines

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Karl Kahn accuses the Claude AI maker of misleading customers about the usage limits on its “Max 5x” and “Max 20x” plans and is seeking reimbursement, The Wall Street Journal reports, in a sign of the pushback Anthropic, and other AI labs, are receiving over t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s certainly happened to someone you know. Industries leaders warn that AI could wipe out entire categories of human jobs — and customer service agents have frequently topped the list, indicating there’s plen