Agents get budgets and boundaries - Sensemaker

Microsoft shipped more concrete agent controls while Uber put coding agents on a token budget. The agent story is becoming IT management, not demos.

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …

Where agents meet the gate - Sensemaker

This week’s AI story was not just smarter models. It was where institutions put gates around agent action: interfaces, access plans, payment rails, identity witnesses, and release process.

LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns

As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...

Introduction to Agents

Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.

Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Agents enter distribution - Sensemaker

Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.

Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents (formerly Dark Visitors)

Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business

Agent Plugins

A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.

Google maps the future of AI agents: Five lessons for businesses

Google's groundbreaking white paper reveals how AI agents leverage advanced reasoning, real-time data access and autonomous decision-making.