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AI agent fatigue may be hitting enterprise customers

You may have noticed that recently, every piece of business or productivity software seems to have an “AI agent” feature that keeps getting pushed in front of you, whether you want it or not.

That’s leading to AI agent fatigue among enterprise customers, according to The Information.

Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle have been pushing their AI agent features to help with tasks such as customer service, IT support, and hiring. But many of those features are all powered by AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic, leading to a similar set of functions, according to the report.

As companies race to tack on AI agents to their legacy products, it remains to be seen which functions will become the “killer app” for enterprise AI.

From Snowflake to Sierra, Every Enterprise Software Firm Is Selling the Same AI Agents

From Snowflake to Sierra, Every Enterprise Software Firm Is Selling the Same AI Agents

Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle have been pushing their AI agent features to help with tasks such as customer service, IT support, and hiring. But many of those features are all powered by AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic, leading to a similar set of functions, according to the report.

As companies race to tack on AI agents to their legacy products, it remains to be seen which functions will become the “killer app” for enterprise AI.

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Google’s Waymo has started letting passengers take the freeway

Waymo’s approach to robotaxi expansion has been slow and steady — a practice that has meant the Google-owned autonomous ride-hailing service that launched to the public in 2020 is only just now taking riders on freeways.

On Wednesday, Waymo announced that “a growing number of public riders” in the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles can take the highway and are no longer confined to local routes. The company said it will soon expand freeway capabilities to Austin and Atlanta. It also noted that its service in San Jose is now available, meaning Waymos can traverse the entire San Francisco Peninsula.

Waymo’s main competitor, Tesla, so far operates an autonomous service in Austin as well as a more traditional ride-hailing service across the Bay Area, where a driver uses Full Self-Driving (Supervised). On the company’s last earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla would expand its robotaxi service to 8 to 10 markets this year.

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Anthropic gets into the data center business, pledging $50 billion

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Google rolls out Private AI Compute matching Apple’s AI privacy scheme

One of the barriers to people embracing AI in their daily lives is trust — making sure that the company that built the AI isn’t going to just spill your most sensitive info to advertisers and data brokers.

Google is announcing a new feature called Private AI Compute that takes a page from Apple to help assure users that Google will keep your AI data private.

In June 2024, Apple announced its Private Cloud Compute scheme, which ensures only the user can access data sent to the cloud to enable AI features.

While Apple’s AI tools have yet to fully materialize, Google’s new offering looks a lot like Apple’s. AI models on its phones process data in a secure environment, and when more computing is needed in the cloud, that security is extended to the cloud to be processed by Google’s custom TPU chips.

A press release said: “This ensures sensitive data processed by Private AI Compute remains accessible only to you and no one else, not even Google.”

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute

Google is introducing its own version of Apple’s private AI cloud compute

In June 2024, Apple announced its Private Cloud Compute scheme, which ensures only the user can access data sent to the cloud to enable AI features.

While Apple’s AI tools have yet to fully materialize, Google’s new offering looks a lot like Apple’s. AI models on its phones process data in a secure environment, and when more computing is needed in the cloud, that security is extended to the cloud to be processed by Google’s custom TPU chips.

A press release said: “This ensures sensitive data processed by Private AI Compute remains accessible only to you and no one else, not even Google.”

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