Autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, and the shift from chatbots to software that plans, acts, and gets work done on its own.
OpenAI's new agentic platform executes long-running workplace tasks across Slack, Gmail, Drive and more. The enterprise AI race with Anthropic and Microsoft just escalated.
Anthropic's agent platform escaped the desktop on July 7 — start a task at your desk, close the laptop, and review the finished work from your phone. Plus surprising data on what people actually use it for.
Chatbots answer questions. Agents get things done. Here's a plain-English guide to agentic AI — what it is, how it works, and why it's the most important shift in software since the cloud.
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