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Gemini 2.0 Released: Google announced Gemini2.0 with enhanced performance, cost efficiency, and advanced reasoning capabilities.
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The Agent Awakens: GitHub has introduced agent mode to VS Code for GitHub Copilot and provides a first look at their SWE agent. Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash is included as an available model.
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Research highlight: Action Model via In-Context Reinforcement Learning: ICRL enables generalist agents to learn at inference through trial-and-error but struggles with scalability beyond toy tasks.
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DeepSeek has released VL2, which introduces a new series of Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language models. It includes up to 4.5B activated parameters and excels in tasks like OCR, visual grounding, and chart understanding.
AI agents may cause some finance jobs to ‘disappear’: Microsoft exec, CFO Dive
2/4/25
Artificial intelligence agents — tools designed to take on workplace tasks — could fundamentally reshape the corporate finance function in coming years, rendering some jobs obsolete while creating new ones, according to Georg Glantschnig, vice president of Dynamics 365 AI ERP at Microsoft. The technology is still in the early stages of development, and some analysts say it may be too soon for rapid adoption when it comes to functions such as corporate finance.
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang says that IT will ‘become the HR of AI agents’, Yahoo Finance
1/31/25
AI agents are quickly becoming part of the workforce, and as NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang pointed out at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week, companies are going to have to figure out how best to work with them. The chip-making giant recently released a set of AI Blueprints, or agent models that can be integrated directly into a company’s software.
CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much. CIO
2/4/25
IT’s opinion on the promise of agentic AI is divided, with leaders seeing agents as core to business operations in the near future and IT pros — who will deploy them — much more skeptical. Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts.
HubSpot’s Prospective AI Agent Platform Races Past 500,000 Users, CX Today
2/3/25
Agent.ai, the agentic AI platform built by HubSpot Founder & current CTO Dharmesh Shah, has surged past 500,000 users. The platform only had 250,000 users at the turn of the year, highlighting its rapid growth in January.
The Right Approach to State Regulation of AI, Yale Insights
2/4/25
In the last week, financial markets and the tech sector experienced a convulsive shock akin to the Russian Sputnik surprise of 1957. While recent advancements—honestly achieved or not—by DeepSeek have leaders reconsidering their approach to the development of artificial intelligence, it is also a reminder of how much America must supercharge its efforts in the space to remain globally competitive.
AI, creativity and regulation: The three big questions we need answered, Adobe Blog
2/5/25
Artificial intelligence in creative fields is reshaping industries at a rapid pace, sparking debates on its ethical implications and long-term effects. Nadia Lee, an advocate for ethical AI and founder of That’s My Face delves into three critical questions on AI’s impact on creativity, the responsibility for regulating AI, and how tools like Adobe’s Content Credentials can help preserve authenticity.
Exclusive: The British Public Wants Stricter AI Rules Than Its Government Does, Time
2/6/25
Even as Silicon Valley races to build more powerful artificial intelligence models, public opinion on the other side of the Atlantic remains decidedly skeptical of the influence of tech CEOs when it comes to regulating the sector, with the vast majority of Britons worried about the safety of new AI systems. The concerns, highlighted in a new poll shared exclusively with TIME, come as world leaders and tech bosses—from U.S. Vice President JD Vance, France’s Emmanuel Macron and India’s Narendra Modi to OpenAI chief Sam Altman and Google’s Sundar Pichai—prepare to gather in Paris next week to discuss the rapid pace of developments in AI.
Artificial intelligence trends to watch in 2025: Regulation of AI, Dentons
2/4/25
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) has resulted in government efforts around the globe to regulate the providers and users of AI systems. Recent political changes, including the prorogation of Canadian Parliament, an upcoming federal election and the inauguration of US President Trump are likely to change the landscape of AI regulation in Canada in 2025.
Workday launches a platform for enterprises to manage all of their AI agents in one place, TechCrunch
2/11/25
HR giant Workday is launching a new way for enterprises to keep track of all of their AI agents in one place. It’s also launching a few more AI agents of its own, for good measure.
Napkin AI’s ‘design agency’ of AI agents is changing how professionals create graphics, VentureBeat
2/11/25
Graphic design company Napkin AI is carving out a unique path in an exciting frontier area of vertical AI agent applications. A user can type text in Napkin AI’s web site, and its model generates a graphic that represents text within five seconds.
AI Agents for Marketing and CX? They’re Already in the Building, CMSWire
2/7/25
AI agents are likely already on your radar, whether you are in the process of actively implementing them or not. Whether you’ve formally rolled them out or not, they’re likely already part of your organization in one way or another.
A 5-point checklist before you select and implement an AI agent platform, CIO
2/10/25
With agentic AI moving at breakneck pace, here are some tips to select an AI agent builder platform so you and your team — and your vendor — can simultaneously innovate. As a CIO, it’s likely that this year, your IT team is moving quickly from evaluating and deploying discrete third-party AI software packages, to integrating custom AI agents throughout your client-facing and internal business applications for even further automation and productivity.
AI agents: The next step in the artificial intelligence revolution? SC Media
2/11/25
They’re task-oriented and will be designed to take it upon themselves to complete those tasks as efficiently as possible without any human input. The AI agents are coming.
Agentic AI vs. generative AI, IBM
2/11/25
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a popular topic for the past decade, but more recently terms such as generative AI (gen AI) and agentic AI have emerged. While traditional AI offered users an exciting new way to recognize patterns and analyze data, gen AI can create new patterns and content like text, images, video, audio or software code.
How an AI-enabled software product development life cycle will fuel innovation, McKinsey & Company
2/10/25
Over the two years since generative AI (gen AI) emerged, much of the enterprise focus on the technology has revolved around its ability to foster increased productivity for software engineers and developers. Yet while such efficiency gains are a significant driver of the $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion that McKinsey estimates gen AI could add to the global economy, a growing number of organizations are taking a more expansive view of the technology’s full impact on the entire process of creating software products.
Inside Monday’s AI pivot: Building digital workforces through modular AI, VentureBeat
2/10/25
The Monday.com work platform has been steadily growing over the past decade, in a quest to achieve its goal of helping empower teams at organizations small and large to be more efficient and productive. According to co-founder Roy Mann, AI has been a part of the company for much of its history.
Using AI to build AI: how enterprises are increasing revenue while upskilling headcount, TechRadar
2/7/25
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises face mounting pressure to deliver innovative solutions faster, at a higher quality, while managing costs effectively. Traditional approaches to software development, which rely heavily on expanding development teams to meet growing demands, are becoming increasingly unsustainable.
AI Agents Are Changing How People Shop. Here’s What That Means for Brands, Harvard Business Review
2/26/25
AI agents—algorithms empowered to take action on a user’s behalf—are starting to fundamentally reshape the business and consumer landscapes. Case in point: Enough consumers are skipping Google and searching using ChatGPT, an AI agent that interprets questions and synthesizes search results, that some experts estimate it could replace Google in four years.
What It Really Takes To Make AI Agents Work, NFX
2/25
About 18 months ago, we started getting our first “AI agent” pitches. It was clear this had huge potential.
How AI-Driven Marketing Automation Transforms Customer Engagement, CMSWire
2/24/25
The past year has marked a turning point in AI-driven business automation. Innovations such as OpenAI’s Operator framework and Anthropic’s advancements in AI-driven computer use signal a shift beyond simple marketing automation into a world where intelligent agents handle complex tasks with minimal human intervention.
Capitalize on the AI Agent Opportunity, Gartner
2/27/25
Though generative AI (GenAI) has captured headlines with its meteoric rise to popularity, AI agents are quickly becoming the “next big thing.” By 2028, Gartner predicts that 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, with at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions being made autonomously through AI agents.
AI agents offer a glimpse into a potentially simplified future, MarTech
2/24/25
For years, the martech ecosystem has expanded relentlessly. We’re now surrounded by an overwhelming array of tools designed to solve specific marketing challenges.
OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries, TechCrunch
2/21/25
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator — its AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users — for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland.
New Research Reveals 84% of IT Leaders Trust AI Agents Equally or More than Humans, Business Wire
2/26/25
SnapLogic, the leader in generative integration, today announced the findings of its “AI Agents: The Final Frontier of the Enterprise” report, offering critical insight into the readiness of IT infrastructures for successful implementation of AI agents. Polling over 1,000 IT decision-makers across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia, the report analyzes the investment, readiness, and adoption of AI agents to streamline IT and business processes.
Microsoft invests in cloud data firm Veeam Software to build AI products, Reuters
2/25/25
Microsoft has made an undisclosed equity investment in Veeam Software as part of an expanded partnership to build artificial intelligence products, the cloud data company said on Tuesday. Veeam’s software is designed to help customers quickly recover their data after cybersecurity incidents, ransomware attacks or accidental data loss.
Google, Meta execs blast Europe over strict AI regulation as Big Tech ups the ante, CNBC
2/21/25
Executives at U.S. tech giants Google and Meta said that Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation, adding to rhetoric from Donald Trump’s administration that the region’s strict tech rules are choking innovation. Speaking at the Techarena tech conference in Stockholm, Sweden, public policy chiefs at both Google and Meta used the stage as a platform to voice their concerns about the bloc’s strict approach to regulating technologies such as AI and machine learning.