In the past six months, the global conversation around AI agents has been dominated by a familiar geography: Silicon Valley. From autonomous coding copilots to workflow orchestration tools, North American players have been racing to define what the “agentic future” of work looks like—often through increasingly complex, developer-first systems. While on May 28, a different…
Heathrow’s AI assistant handles traveler inquiries via WhatsApp, reducing the need for phone calls. Heathrow leveraged its longtime partnership with Salesforce to create the tool, called Hallie. Hallie is set to expand to the airport’s website and app later this year. Nearly 85 million travelers passed through Heathrow Airport in 2025. Amid the hustle and…
AirOps, the business name of Rivington Labs Inc., today introduced Quill, an artificial intelligence agent designed to help brands maintain visibility in generative AI search engines by continuously monitoring, updating and creating content. The San Francisco-based startup is building its business on the broader shift from traditional search engine optimization to what is increasingly being…
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Google has officially closed the book on Project Mariner, the experimental AI agent designed to navigate the web just like a human. After a relatively short 17-month journey, the project’s landing page now carries a farewell message confirming the tool shutdown. What was Google’s Project Mariner? If you didn’t get a chance to test it,…
Adobe has introduced AI-powered PDF tools, a productivity agent, podcast creation features and interactive sharing through Acrobat, aiming to help creators and businesses generate, manage and …
Build Agent in ServiceNow Studio lets any developer build production-ready apps and AI agents using natural language prompts Developers can now build from any integrated developer environment or AI coding agent with full context and governance from ServiceNow Free access to App Engine Management Center governs every app before deployment; reimagined AI Agent Studio simplifies…
Overview As enterprises move from experimental AI pilots to production-grade agentic systems, a new challenge is emerging: visibility. In this episode of DEMO, Keith Shaw speaks with Jeff Wiedemann of Splunk about how organizations can monitor and manage AI agents operating across increasingly complex environments. The discussion explores how Splunk’s Observability Cloud platform helps IT…
Posted May 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM UTC Adobe made an AI agent for PDFs. The new “productivity agent” connects with Adobe’s image and audio generative AI models and powers conversational document editing features in Acrobat, alongside unlocking new sharing capabilities in PDF Spaces. This is just the latest example of Adobe’s commitment to slap…
Amazon Web Services has introduced a managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers stand up a working autonomous agent through configuration rather than orchestration code. The preview, paired with a new command-line interface, a persistent agent filesystem and prebuilt skills for popular coding assistants, signals that AWS sees deployment friction, rather than…
