2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, right? Not quite, acknowledge Google Cloud and Replit — two big players in the AI agent space and partners in the "vibe coding" movement — at a recent VB Impact Series event.Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two companies say the capabilities aren’t quite there yet. This constrained reality comes down to struggles with legacy workflows, fragmented data, and immature governance models. Also, enterprises fundamentally misunderstand that agents aren’t like other technologies: They require a fundamental rethink and reworking of workflows and processes. When enterprises are building agents to automate work, “most of them are toy examples,” Amjad Masad, CEO and founder of Replit, said durin [...]
OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers.Called "Workspace Agents," [...]
Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]
Microsoft today announced the general availability of Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise 7, two products designed to bring security and governance to the rapidly growing population of AI agents op [...]
Right now in the AI world, there are a lot of percolating ideas and experimentation. But as far as Replit CEO Amjad Masad is concerned, the results are unreliable, marginally effective, and generic. [...]
Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, [...]
Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, today announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and [...]
In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own ha [...]
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]
A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]