AI agents’ momentum won’t stop in 2025

Interest in AI agents is high, and as enterprises get more comfortable with agents, 2025 may be the year AI agents finally go into production.

Tech - VentureBeat - 10 hours ago

Meta and Microsoft Won’t Stop Spending on AI

Both tech giants reported strong third quarters but their stocks fell anyway.

Business - Inc. - October 31

Gartner: 2025 will see the rise of AI agents (and other top trends)

Also keep an eye on AI governance tools, hybrid computing, disinformation security, post-quantum cryptography and even more out-there tech.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 21

2025: The year ‘invisible’ AI agents will integrate into enterprise hierarchies

Ultimately, AI agents will be able to perceive (process and interpret data), plan, act (with or without a human in the loop), reflect, learn from feedback and improve over time.

Tech - VentureBeat - 10 hours ago

Royal Caribbean set for strong quarter, momentum into 2025, says analyst

An analyst points to “ongoing momentum and no signs of consumer softness.”

Business - MarketWatch - October 21

SK Hynix Profit Momentum Continues on AI-Chip Demand

SK Hynix posted record earnings in the third quarter as it continued to ride strong demand for powerful computing chips to support artificial-intelligence applications.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 23

ServiceNow flirts with $200 billion market cap as AI momentum draws cheers

ServiceNow’s stock is on track for a record close Thursday following an upbeat earnings report.

Business - MarketWatch - October 24

Microsoft Will Let Clients Build Their Own AI Agents

In November, customers can start using Copilot Studio to make their own AI apps to perform many routine tasks.

Business - Inc. - October 21

How to get started with AI agents (and do it right)

When should enterprises build custom in-house AI agents, adopt third-party models, or use open source tools?

Tech - VentureBeat - 10 hours ago

The new paradigm: Architecting the data stack for AI agents

Discover how to build a robust data stack for your AI agents and unlock the full potential of generative AI.

Tech - VentureBeat - 10 hours ago

Why AI won’t make you a better writer

Don’t let anything, least of all AI, cheat you out of what is creatively possible. Go forth and write your own story.

Tech - VentureBeat - 8 hours ago

Asana AI Studio now offers AI agent creation for workflow management

Work management platform Asana said multiple AI agents on a workflow system gets rid of "busy work."

Tech - VentureBeat - October 22

How Sema4.ai is empowering business users to deploy AI agents in minutes

Many early AI agents tend to be singularly-purposed or IT-driven. Sema4.ai says it is the differentiator for diverse horizontal use cases.

Tech - VentureBeat - 10 hours ago

The N.B.A.’s Oldest Stars Won’t Stop Fighting. Treasure This Era.

LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry have packed two lifetimes in their careers, a columnist for The Athletic writes.

Sports - The New York Times - October 30

Mets decline Phil Maton's option for 2025, making him a free agent

The Mets are declining the 2025 option on reliever Phil Maton, whom they acquired from the Rays last season.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - November 4

Why the EU’s biometric border won’t come before spring 2025

Also in this newsletter: customs authorities seize record amount of counterfeit goods

World - Financial Times - 21 hours ago

Will U.S. Ryder Cup players be paid in 2025? There's momentum toward historic shift for Americans, per report

Team USA could be playing for country and cash at the upcoming Ryder Cup

Sports - CBS Sports - Yesterday

Cognizant adds multi-agent functionality to AI application platform

Cognizant's Neuro AI platform will use a multi-agent framework to help enterprises ideate new AI applications.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 16

CrewAI now lets you build fleets of enterprise AI agents

CrewAI is one of the most popular AI agent frameworks, enabling users to quickly and simply build, deploy and iterate multi-agent “crews.”

Tech - VentureBeat - October 22

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.

Tech - Wired - October 22

DeepMind’s Talker-Reasoner framework brings System 2 thinking to AI agents

Talker-Reasoner is inspired by the two-system thinking cognitive framework proposed by Daniel Kahneman.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

ServiceNow advocates for ‘invisible’ AI agents to ease worker adoption

ServiceNow vice president of AI Dorit Zilbershot believes employees will be more accepting of AI agents when they don't even know they're using AI agents.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 25

Gartner predicts AI agents will transform work, but disillusionment is growing

Gen AI is one of the hottest and hyped topics today. However, enterprise leaders are becoming skeptical about its near-term usefulness.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 28

Why multi-agent AI tackles complexities LLMs can’t

While AGI and fully autonomous systems are still on the horizon, multi-agents will bridge the current gap between LLMs and AGI.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 2

We were warned about Project 2025 — now it’s too late to stop it

The election is over. What matters now is how the Trump administration governs.

Politics - The Hill - Yesterday

‘Smash the gangs’ is just Keir Starmer’s version of ‘stop the boats’. It won’t solve the migrant crisis | Enver Solomon

The PM echoes Tony Blair in his pledge to be tough on crime – but he is less interested in the causes behind the Channel crossings. Enver Solomon is chief executive of the Refugee Council It may ...

World - The Guardian - November 7

Blake Snell opts out of Giants contract, becomes free agent ahead of 2025 season

The 31-year-old Snell started 20 games for the Giants in 2024, one year after winning the NL Cy Young Award

Sports - CBS Sports - November 1

Meta misses on user growth, warns of 2025 jump in AI spending

Meta reported weaker-than-expected user numbers and warned of a significant acceleration in its infrastructure expenses in 2025 in its third-quarter earnings.

Business - CNBC - October 30

Microsoft to roll out new autonomous AI agents next month, fending off challenge from Salesforce

Microsoft will allow organizations to create their own autonomous AI agents within Copilot starting next month.

Business - CNBC - October 21

Microsoft to roll out new autonomous AI agents next month, fending off challenge from Salesforce

LONDON — Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforce, which introduced its own ...

Microsoft’s new AI agents set to shake up enterprise software, sparking new battle with Salesforce

Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents for Dynamics 365, challenging Salesforce's Agentforce in the race to dominate enterprise AI and reshape the future of work.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 21

Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.

Business - CNBC - October 22

This Research Firm Explains How AI Agents May Change Everyone’s Jobs, and Soon

The next generation of AI agents could take on more complicated tasks and require little oversight, according to research and consulting firm Gartner.

Business - Inc. - October 29