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All posts →- AWS Just Shipped an AI Agent That Hunts Your Cloud Waste — and Smartly Refuses to Touch AnythingAWS put a FinOps Agent into public preview that investigates your cloud bill, files the ticket, and pings Slack — but won’t resize or delete a single resource. That restraint is the whole point, and it’s a lesson for anyone deploying agents.
- Salesforce Is Paying $3.6 Billion for an AI Agent That Closes 76% of Support Tickets. The Customer Service Job Just Changed.Salesforce is buying Fin, the AI support agent formerly known as Intercom, for about $3.6 billion. Fin already resolves 76% of support volume end to end. Here’s what the deal signals for SMBs and enterprise IT.
- Best AI Security Tools for Small Business in 2026: The 5 Worth Paying ForAI-generated phishing is the defining security threat of 2026, and the old spam filter isn’t going to save you. Here are the five AI security tools I’d actually put my money behind this year — what they cost, what they do, and who each one is for.
- Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Think Just Took the Lead — What That Means for Your AI StackGoogle shipped Gemini 2.5 Pro with Deep Think on June 22, and the benchmarks put it at the front of the pack. Here’s what actually matters if you use AI tools every day — and what doesn’t.
- The Week Agent Governance Stopped Being Optional: 74% Rollbacks, a Flood of Frameworks, and an August DeadlineA cascade of agent-governance frameworks landed this week as the EU AI Act’s high-risk clock ticks toward August 2. The most uncomfortable data point: the most careful companies are pulling their agents the fastest.
- Gartner Says Companies Will Spend $206 Billion on AI Agents This Year. The Buildout Is Already Here.Gartner pegs purpose-built AI agent software at $206.5 billion in 2026 — a 139% jump in one year. Meanwhile the agent-building tools are landing fast. Here’s what’s real and what to do with it.
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I’m Brad — I build and run AI and automation systems for a living, then write up the ones worth your attention. Everything here is tested in production before it’s published.
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