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The agents got identities before you wrote the policy
Four of this week's five signals describe the same transition from different angles: the specialist judgment that used to live in a person's head is now being compiled into a gover
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Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
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Google Cloud unveils persistent Gemini Agents for long-running tasks, and they get their own Gmail, Calendar, and Drive storage
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