AI agents are quickly moving from concept to practical tools.

Unlike traditional chatbots, they can plan, make decisions, use external tools, and complete multi-step tasks.

If you're trying to understand what AI agents are and where this technology is heading, this guide breaks it down in plain English:

https://www.panstag.com/2026/05/what-are-ai-agents-how-they-work.html

#AI #AIAgents #Automation #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Databricks Bolsters AI Efforts Through Startup Acquisitions

Why did Databricks buy Antimatter and SiftD.ai? Learn how these two startup acquisitions on May 18, 2026, will change AI security for business users.

#databricks, #aisecurity, #techacquisition, #aiagents, #bigdata

https://newsletter.tf/databricks-buys-antimatter-siftd-ai-may-2026/

Databricks has added two new startups to its team. This is part of their plan to make AI safer and faster for all users compared to last year.

#databricks, #aisecurity, #techacquisition, #aiagents, #bigdata
https://newsletter.tf/databricks-buys-antimatter-siftd-ai-may-2026/

OpenAI décrit comment Codex est sécurisé : sandboxing, approval policy, configuration, logs et télémétrie.

Le futur des agents n'est pas "autonome ou pas". C'est une granularité intelligente de confiance.

Lire un test, modifier un workflow de déploiement et publier une release ne doivent pas déclencher les mêmes règles.

#Security #AIAgents #DevTools

Gizmodo: Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of a Simulated Society. Grok Oversaw a Crime Spree. “Researchers at the upstart lab Emergence AI allowed AI models to govern their own simulated world to see what would happen. Turns out we probably shouldn’t hand over governance to the machines, who woulda thought?”

"Using MCP, agents can fetch structured data contextually relevant to the task at hand. According to Edgar Kussberg, group product manager at Sonar, MCP accelerates the knowledge-hunting engineers must routinely perform on a daily basis.

“When an engineer needs to answer a question, they do not rely on memory alone,” says Kussberg. “They navigate code repositories, dashboards, CI systems, documentation, and security reports, pulling information from each system as needed. MCP gives AI agents that same capability.”

Many of the most popular MCP servers retrieve contextual information to improve agentic coding. For example, an MCP server from Context7 provides up-to-date documentation, while another from Filesystem pulls from any directory on a local machine. An MCP server from Sentry accesses production issues and errors, a server from SonarQube exposes security issues, and a server from Multiplayer returns user session data.

The great thing about using MCP for these situations is that it avoids the need to put large code chunks in every prompt. Instead, coding context like relevant methods, dependencies, or recent changes can be called at runtime, says Venugopal Jidigam, head of agentic platform engineering at WaveMaker, an agentic development platform. “The MCP server assembles and returns scoped, structured context, which the model then uses to reason and respond accurately,” he says.

Another common context-gathering example is retrieving institutional knowledge. “Instead of hardcoding that knowledge into the model, the agent uses MCP to retrieve relevant documents or data at runtime,” says Ebrahim Alareqi, principal machine learning engineer at Incorta, a data and analytics platform provider. “This keeps the agent lightweight while still giving it access to enterprise-specific context when needed.”"

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4175336/the-role-of-mcp-in-context-engineering.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #MCP #ContextEngineering #Documentation #SoftwareDocumentation #AIAgents #AgenticAI

🚨 NEWS: AI Agents cosa sono, come funzionano e perché cambieranno il tuo business

Ecco i punti chiave in breve:
💡 Il problema è concreto: hai un assistente AI che risponde alle email ma non sa prenotare un volo, un chatbot che ti scrive il testo ma non lo pubblica, un sistema che ti dice cosa...

🚀 LINK: https://meteoraweb.com/analisi-dei-dati-e-metriche/ai-agents-cosa-sono-come-funzionano-e-perche-cambieranno-il-tuo-business

#automazione #intelligenzaArtificiale #pMI #aIAgents #functionCalling

OpenAI détaille le sandbox Codex sous Windows.

Le sujet paraît bas niveau, mais c'est le coeur du produit : un agent utile doit agir sans demander chaque micro-permission, mais un agent sûr ne doit pas avoir carte blanche sur la machine.

Les agents de dev seront adoptés durablement quand leur environnement d'exécution inspirera confiance.

#DevTools #Security #AIAgents