Research Report 6: Agentic Shopping is Complicated and Contingent

This is the sixth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working with AI through rig

Agents First

Every product is getting a second customer — the human who pays, and the agent who decides. A design framework for building products that AI agents can use as primary consumers.

AI Agents Will Pay Attention

Also the Man City charges, cotton trade prints and investment bank apprenticeship.

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.

Agentic Search for Dummies — Benjamin Anderson

A simple, effective baseline for building AI search agents.

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.

Dii familiares

Musings on agents and AI and a little signposting

Agents

Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Prentice Hall, 1995), defines the field of AI research as “the study and design of rational agents.”

AI Sycophancy and Decisions

We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in eco

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.