







AI Agents Are Taking Over: And That’s Good For Business
Autonomous AI societies are transforming commerce with self-governing, agent-driven systems, redefining the future of business through collaborative intelligence.

Consumer Finance AI Standard
AI (artificial intelligence) is making consequential decisions about consumers’ financial lives, including who gets access to credit, which claims get paid, what financial products consumers are shown, and how users are advised to manage their accounts, among many others. It’s doing this at scale, largely out of sight, and with almost no accountability when it
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.

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
AI Agents Will Be The Key To Achieving ROI From AI
AI agents are emerging as a crucial type of application for enterprises looking to derive more value from their AI investments in the near term.

Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built
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.

Artificial Intelligence for Economic Development Conference: Roundup of 27 presentations
Is artificial intelligence the future for economic development? Earlier this month, a group of World Bank staff, academic researchers, and technology company representatives convened at a conference in San Francisco to discuss new advances in artificial intelligence. One of the takeaways for Bank staff was how AI technologies might be ...
AI Economy Institute - Microsoft Research
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is Microsoft’s flagship think tank dedicated to shaping an inclusive, trustworthy AI economy. We building a network of scholars and convening that network with our subject matter experts to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work, education, and productivity – and making this knowledge base available to policy-makers, educators, and […]

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases
The brokerage’s new feature links artificial-intelligence tools to investment and credit-card accounts.
British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card
: Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech

Agentic AI Governance: Securing Autonomous AI Agents in Enterprise
When AI agents start making decisions, calling tools, and coordinating with other agents without waiting for human approval, the governance playbook most...

Content Independence Day, one year on- building the business model for the agentic Internet
One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.

