🤖 From Tasks to "Super-Agents": This week in Agentic AI

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In this edition:

• ChatGPT's new scheduled tasks beta: What's actually possible

• A closer look at the Ph.D-level AI super-agent predictions - hype or hope?

• Powerful tools you can start using today: Replit Agents, n8n, and Bolt.new

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🕵🏻‍♂️ AI Agent Intel of the week

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Top Agentic News 🔎

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT adds scheduled tasks feature in beta (link)

• Microsoft Introduces Pay-as-You-Go AI Copilot Chat with Agents (link)

• Google rolls out Vertex AI RAG Engine (link)

• Microsoft’s Upcoming AI Agents for the Contact Center (link)

• Everything you need to know about AI agents and what they can do (link)

🔥 Takes

• Future of Copilots & AI Agents: Takes from Microsoft, Salesforce, & NVIDIA (link)

🚨 Red alert or good news?

• Ph.D.-level AI super-agent breakthrough expected very soon (link)

  • Do headlines like this make you want to run to your nearest karaoke bar and bust out an appropriate Weezer classic:
    You know the one… “Say it ain’t so eeooo eeooo!” 🤘😭 

  • Or should you be pumped for the potential?

  • Not gonna lie — if I made the significant time investment to get a Ph.D, then I read that headline, I might be pissed… and skeptical.

  • For now, the Ph.D-less technologist in me is thrilled to hear it, bullish on the potential, and not worried (yet).

  • Verdict (for now): Good news!

👀 ICYMI

• A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents (link)

• Understanding And Preparing For The 7 Levels Of AI Agents (link)

  • This article is relevant to my deep dive from last week (link)

🤓 Talk nerdy to me

• Fresh Google Research: “Chain of Agents: Large Language Models Collaborating on Long-Context Tasks” (link)

🧰 Agentic AI tools of the week

If this week’s tools feel too technical for your background, don’t be intimidated.
Try, learn, grow.

• Replit Agents: Try it now, thank me later. My daily source of 🤯 lately.

• n8n: a user-friendly automation tool that allows you to connect different apps and services to create custom workflows without needing coding skills.

• Bolt.new: Similar in functionality to Replit Agents. Worth checking out!

🧠 Learning resources of the week

• How I'd Teach a 10 Year Old to Build AI Agents (link)

• Build AI Agents & Apps FAST with Azure AI Foundry (link)

• Explore common agent recipes with ready to copy code to improve your LLM applications (link)

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