The AI agent race is on

The AI agent race is on

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Bhawika Chhabra/Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai is deepening a push into enterprise software, signalling to investors at Google’s annual cloud conference that AI agents — human-like digital assistants — are a lynchpin of its strategy to monetise artificial intelligence. At the three-day conference in Las Vegas that starts Wednesday, Pichai and…

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KnowBe4 Secures the Human and AI Workforce with Agent Risk Manager

KnowBe4 Secures the Human and AI Workforce with Agent Risk Manager

KnowBe4, the world-renowned platform that comprehensively addresses human and agentic AI risk management, today announced the launch of Agent Risk Manager, the industry’s first defense system designed to secure, monitor, and govern the behavior of autonomous AI agents. KnowBe4 Agent Risk Manager arrives as a cornerstone of the KnowBe4 HRM+ platform, fundamentally changing how organizations…

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Your real estate agent just got a robot sidekick

Your real estate agent just got a robot sidekick

AI use in real estate will refine the properties that estate agents show people. (Image by Nicola Mawson, with Freepik and GenAI) Gone are the days of real estate agents bombarding people with flyers and cold calls, as ‘bionic’ agents use AI to sift data, answer queries and avoid showing buyers properties that are far…

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Prosus ups the ante on AI agent deployment

Prosus ups the ante on AI agent deployment

Prosus and Naspers CEO Fabricio Bloisi. Naspers subsidiary Prosus doubled the number of artificial intelligence (AI) agents working alongside its employees in July, underscoring the company’s push to embed AI at the core of its operations. This update came from CEO Fabricio Bloisi in a letter to shareholders following the group’s annual general meeting (AGM),…

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