What Meta AI’s Email and Calendar Agent Actually Changes
Meta AI can now use email and calendar context for recurring tasks. Here is what to test before granting primary-account access and trusting its research.
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TECHi reporting and analysis covering AI Agents. 18 articles, newest first.
Three firms hold 84% of AI agents. France just drew a line.
France's competition authority found OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic hold 84% of the AI-agent market and warned of lock-in. What Opinion 26-A-05 means for you.
Coinbase Let Agents Pay Merchants. The Ledger Says Go Slow
Coinbase Business can now accept USDC from AI agents over x402. The on-chain record shows a crypto-native payer cohort, not commercial demand.
Four AI agent platforms launched in a month. None agree what it is
OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA/ServiceNow, and Google shipped enterprise agent platforms in a month — and disagree on what the product is. The market-structure read for buyers.
Google shipped three Geminis. The one you can't buy is the story
Google shipped Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model. Why the gated cybersecurity variant is the real signal in the release.
OpenAI Presence sells trusted agents. Here is the buyer's checklist
OpenAI's Presence platform productizes agent governance — policies, guardrails, simulations. What its FDE-led model and 75% claim mean before you sign a pilot.
LangChain makes reasoning effort portable—but not equivalent
LangChain now standardizes reasoning effort across OpenAI, xAI and Fireworks, but identical labels still hide different cost, latency and model behavior.
Harness Agent DLC Puts AI Releases Under One Change Record
Harness Agent DLC links evals, prompts, deployments, assets and traces. TECHi tests what is live, what is roadmap, and whether release history survives.
EU AI Act Makes AI Agents Say Who Sent Them
The EU’s Article 50 guidance says AI agents should identify themselves and the person they represent. Here is what product teams must build by August 2.
Replit’s AI Agents Nearly Tripled Output. Now Comes the Road Test
Replit says AI agents lifted same-cohort code output 2.9x. Its architecture looks credible, but the productivity case still needs a controlled cost test.
Kimi K3 Is Cheap to Call, but the Weights Are Not Here
Kimi K3’s API is live, but its weights, license and self-hosting stack are not. TECHi audits the 64-accelerator gap behind Moonshot AI’s claims today.
CrewAI 1.15.3 Puts Control Hooks Inside AI Agent Runs
CrewAI 1.15.3 adds interception hooks, opt-in tool caching, and per-call usage data, giving teams finer control over production AI agent runs and costs.
Grok on Amazon Bedrock Has an Enterprise Portability Catch
Grok 4.3 reaches Bedrock through Mantle, but runtime incompatibility, regional limits, retention, and retry behavior make enterprise portability conditional.
AWS OpenSearch Agent Toolkit: The Production Control Test
AWS gives AI agents authenticated OpenSearch access. Here is how IAM, approvals, data-plane audits, and recovery determine production safety.
AI progress so far, and the next 10 years that matter
A research-based forecast of AI progress through 2036, covering agents, science, jobs, energy, regulation, and infrastructure.
Grok Build turns xAI into an AI coding-agent contender
xAI's Grok Build brings terminal coding agents, headless automation, plugins, MCP and enterprise controls into the race with Codex and Claude Code.
Sandisk Stock’s AI Trade Is Data Exhaust
Sandisk stock is being priced as an AI storage winner. The sharper question is whether agent memory turns NAND into contracted infrastructure.
Solana Just Became the Wallet for AI Agents
Solana and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh for AI agent payments. Here is how x402, stablecoins and API micropayments could reshape the web.