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In 2026, AI agents are rapidly integrating into core business operations, with Gartner predicting that 40% of enterprise applications will incorporate task-oriented AI agents by year-end, up from less than 5% in 2025. Despite this growth, a McKinsey survey reveals that 88% of companies use AI in at least one
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Applied Materials shattered previous records in its fiscal second quarter, reporting historically high revenue and earnings powered by an unrelenting global push into agentic AI infrastructure. The semiconductor equipment giant achieved its highest profit margin in 25 years, marking a clear signal that the build-out of advanced computing systems is
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Microsoft has unveiled MDASH (Microsoft Security multi-model agentic scanning harness), an agentic AI system that orchestrates over 100 specialized models to autonomously discover, debate, and prove exploitable bugs—identifying 16 vulnerabilities in this week's Patch Tuesday updates and achieving perfect detection of all 21 planted bugs with zero
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Full Truck Alliance (FTA), in collaboration with Alibaba Cloud Tianchi and ModelScope, has launched a university-targeted Agent Algorithm Contest with a prize pool exceeding 200,000 RMB. The challenge tasks students with building autonomous agents capable of making sequential freight-finding decisions in a simulated logistics network, balancing revenue optimization against
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Moonshot AI, the Chinese AI startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, has announced a full reset of all user quotas for April 2026 after technical issues plagued the launch of its new flagship model, Kimi K2.6. The company acknowledged that unexpected high traffic during the rollout led to service
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In a landmark move, China’s cyberspace administration, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) jointly released the nation’s first systematic policy on intelligent agents. The ‘Implementation Opinions on Standardized Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents’ outlines 19 specific