Meet the AI agents trying to be real-life journalists
Jayden, Sam and Zack keenly pitch reported stories and investigations to editors. All three are AI agents.
Jayden, Sam and Zack keenly pitch reported stories and investigations to editors. All three are AI agents.
AI changes security on two fronts: agents act autonomously, and AI speeds up the discovery of vulnerabilities. Security operations centres are left with the duty of triage.
When customers' AI agents start negotiating with companies' agents, the question will not be whether they can, the column argues, but how much they are allowed to decide.
A JDN column warns that if IT departments are the ones paying for AI agents, companies have a return-on-investment problem they have not yet noticed.
Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta via AI Gateway; a classifier scores each request for complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence to choose a model. Cloudflare's own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on success rate at a third of the cost, though practitioners question how stakes are judged over a long agent session.
Big US banks view AI agents as a nightmare: they are very hard to tell apart from human users and could make financial decisions that harm customers.