This Week in Tech: AI Agents Clock In as Apple Buyers Wait and IT Scrambles - TechRepublic
AI agents want your busywork, shopping list, and increasingly, a role on either side of a cyberattack. Apple buyers are juggling hardware rumors and delivery estimates, while IT teams face another round of urgent patches. Apparently, the future requires less clicking and more checking what the software just did.
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AI agents move from assistance to action
Anthropic launched Claude Duet, a proactive work assistant that can monitor connected business applications and complete administrative tasks in the background. The preview requires human approval before consequential actions and is available through a waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers.
Walmart announced a developer beta for third-party AI shopping agents through a new Agent Gateway that lets outside assistants shop at Walmart and Sam’s Club. Planned Agent Profiles will let users establish spending limits and require manual approvals while keeping purchases made by bots separate from customers’ own shopping activity.
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