Local AI Agents Guide: Setup, Safety, and Workflows for 2026

Local AI Agents Guide: Setup, Safety, and Workflows for 2026

Local AI agents are autonomous systems that run directly on personal devices, offering capabilities like task automation, workflow management and personalized assistance. Unlike cloud-based systems, they operate locally, emphasizing data privacy and customization. In the video below Tina Huang breaks down the essential components that enable these agents to function effectively, such as hosting environments,…

Illia Polosukhin on AI Agents and Why They Still Need Human Oversight

Illia Polosukhin on AI Agents and Why They Still Need Human Oversight

On a given day, Illia Polosukhin has a dozen agents completing different “missions” for him. Loading audio narration… One such mission could be “I want to become a better CEO,” he said. “So it effectively summarizes all of the meeting notes, Google Drive docs, Slack messages, and provides me with a coaching and executive summary…

How AI Agents Are Changing the Way Legal Teams Work — And What Infrastructure They Need to Run Reliably

How AI Agents Are Changing the Way Legal Teams Work — And What Infrastructure They Need to Run Reliably

The legal industry has never been known for rapid adoption of new technology. Decades of established workflows, strict confidentiality requirements, and the high cost of errors have made law firms and in-house legal teams cautious about embracing software that has not been thoroughly vetted. But something has shifted in the past eighteen months. AI agents…

Oracle Brings Autonomous AI Agents to Enterprise CX Workflows

Oracle Brings Autonomous AI Agents to Enterprise CX Workflows

The Gist AI-driven applications. Oracle launches outcome-focused AI tools for sales, service and marketing. Proactive automation. Applications autonomously progress routine work and surface key decisions. CX leader impact. Sales, service and marketing leaders can improve efficiency, loyalty and revenue with less manual oversight. Oracle is embedding autonomous AI agents directly into its CX platform, joining…

BrightEdge Data: AI Search is Reaching a Tipping Point – by End of 2026 Most Online Customers will be AI Agents

BrightEdge Data: AI Search is Reaching a Tipping Point – by End of 2026 Most Online Customers will be AI Agents

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  BrightEdge, the global leader in AI-powered enterprise performance marketing and SEO, today released data revealing AI agent requests reached 88% of human organic search activity, a level nearly matching human search and signaling a fundamental shift in how customers find and evaluate brands online. AI agents…

Technical SEO for generative search: Optimizing for AI agents

Technical SEO for generative search: Optimizing for AI agents

Technical SEO extends beyond indexing to how content is discovered and used, especially as AI systems generate answers instead of listing pages. For generative engine optimization (GEO), the underlying tools and frameworks remain largely the same, but how you implement them determines whether your content gets surfaced — or overlooked. That means focusing on how…

Gnani.ai Raises $10 Mn from Aavishkaar Capital to Power Next-Gen AI Voice Agents

Gnani.ai Raises $10 Mn from Aavishkaar Capital to Power Next-Gen AI Voice Agents

Founded in 2016 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, Gnani.ai launched its voice-first AI model, Inya, at the India Impact AI Summit 2026.  Gnani.ai’s B2B agentic AI solutions improve the customer experience for large enterprises and customer-facing businesses across the BFSI, telecommunications, e-commerce, and healthcare sectors.  “We recently launched Vachna TTS (text-to-speech) that can voice…

Estate agents advised on Google Ads strategies for 2026

Estate agents advised on Google Ads strategies for 2026

Estate agents are being advised to focus on four specific types of Google Ads to maximise their digital marketing effectiveness, according to industry guidance on paid advertising campaigns. With Google Ads holding nearly 30% of the pay-per-click advertising market, the platform offers multiple advertising formats tailored to different business objectives, from brand awareness to vendor…

Perfect Corp. Showcases AI-Powered Beauty Agents and API Innovations Driving the Future of Retail at Shoptalk 2026 –
Las Vegas Sun News

Perfect Corp. Showcases AI-Powered Beauty Agents and API Innovations Driving the Future of Retail at Shoptalk 2026 – Las Vegas Sun News

Published Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 1:30 p.m. NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar 24, 2026– Perfect Corp. (NYSE: PERF), the leading AI and AR solutions provider for beauty, fashion, and retail, showcases its latest AI-powered shopping agents and developer-first API solutions at Shoptalk 2026, taking place March 24–26, 2026, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas . These…