AI Agents
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What this topic covers. AI agents are moving from demos to real workflow software. This topic tracks the tools, deployment patterns, and operating models that make agentic systems useful in practice.
Why it matters. This is where model capability turns into operational leverage. The important question is not whether an agent can complete a task once, but whether it can do it reliably inside a real workflow.
Coverage

Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Will Automate Most White-Collar Work Within 18 Months
Mustafa Suleyman says lawyers, accountants, marketers, and project managers could all be replaced by AI systems within the next year and a half. The data tells a more complicated story.

Claude Mythos Cracked Apple's Most Expensive Security Feature in Five Days
Calif used Anthropic's Mythos Preview to build the first public macOS kernel exploit on M5 silicon, bypassing a multi-billion-dollar memory protection system Apple spent five years building.

Which Jobs Are Safest and Riskiest From AI? The Most Authoritative Research of 2026
Anthropic, Goldman Sachs, the WEF, and the IMF have all released major findings this year. Here is what the data actually says about who is exposed, who is protected, and what is already happening.

Cisco Cuts 4,000 Jobs on the Same Day It Posts $15.8B Record Revenue
The networking giant is eliminating under 5% of its workforce while reporting its best quarterly numbers ever, calling the layoffs a strategic bet on AI, silicon, and optics - not a cost-cutting play.

Claude Helped Recover $400K in Bitcoin Locked in a Forgotten Wallet for 11 Years
A pseudonymous X user credited Anthropic's AI with solving a technical wallet recovery problem that defeated brute-force tools and professional services for over a decade.

LinkedIn Cuts Nearly 900 Jobs Despite 12% Revenue Growth
The Microsoft-owned platform is restructuring teams around profitability and growth priorities - even as its business accelerates.
Practical guides
How to Use Claude Inside Microsoft 365
Claude now works natively inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Here is how to get it running and what to actually do with it.
How to Get Started with Claude Code: A Beginner's Complete Guide
From installation to your first real coding session - everything you need to go from zero to productive with Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent.
Set up useful AI teammates with new ChatGPT workspace agents
Turn generic AI into dedicated expert teammates by creating workspace-specific agents in ChatGPT.
Tools to evaluate
ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational AI assistant covering writing, coding, research, and agentic tasks across a free tier and multiple paid plans.
Manus
A general-purpose AI agent that operates inside a virtual computer to autonomously browse the web, write code, and complete multi-step tasks from a single prompt.
Claude Code
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool built by Anthropic. It reads your full codebase, plans changes across multiple files, runs tests, and iterates on failures — all through natural language in your terminal, IDE, or desktop app. It connects to version control tools like GitHub and GitLab natively and can tag @claude on pull requests.
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