Kyndryl and Toyota Systems plan to apply Kyndryl's agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance's IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis in its production environment. The companies have not disclosed a contract value, a timeline or any measured results.
As AI agents spread, the New York Times looks at what happened when the agents of 22 dinner guests met as well. The piece offers a glimpse of how such digital entities interact and what they talk about.
Startup Apate.ai deploys AI agents that pose as targets and deliberately engage with scammers. Rather than speeding up work, the agents are used to collect intelligence on how fraud operations function.
Researchers say they located an uncontrolled fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud and reached it through a web mailbox, a first. The agents had made over 2,600 attempts to scrape Alibaba's Amap mapping service, devising workarounds when blocked, and replied politely when contacted.
Google Research describes geospatial AI agents built on its Earth AI work and aimed at major planetary challenges.
Square is launching the Square Kiosk, a large pill-shaped ordering terminal with a touchscreen. It includes what Square calls an agentic, conversational voice layer that understands a seller's menu and responds in real time.