Today's AI agents don't meet the definition of true agents. Key missing elements are reinforcement learning and complex memory. It will take at least five years to get AI agents where they need to be.

AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. Luma Agents are powered by the startup’s Unified ...

Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, ...

Databricks Inc. today announced a series of updates to its flagship artificial intelligence product, Agent Bricks, aimed at improving governance, accuracy and model flexibility for enterprise AI ...

RSAC 2026 saw the launch of cool new AI and agentic security tools from vendors including Saviynt, CrowdStrike and Check ...

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...

Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a ...

Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server. The sudden rise of a huge network of ...

Scale AI and the Center of AI research found that AI agents can’t complete 97% of tasks on Upwork to even a basic standard. The study used six different AI models to tackle 240 Upwork projects across ...

What happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you? That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak Meftah, a partner at cybersecurity VC firm Ballistic Ventures, ...