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Hey, it's Matt. Every week, I help ambitious professionals like you:

• Stay ahead of agentic AI breakthroughs

• Find tools that deliver real value

• Transform hype into action

I also write a deep dive every other week on important agentic AI-relevant topics.

• Next week’s deep dive: an objective look at what platforms like agent.ai and AI-specific job postings mean for your career and the future of working alongside AI agents. Stay tuned!

In this edition:

• AI Agent Meme of the Week

• AI Agent Intel of the Week:

  • Sam Altman's latest insights on AI agents

  • HubSpot's “Professional Network for AI Agents” hits major milestone

  • New tools for building AI agent teams and how they are reshaping the job market

  • and more!

• Agentic Bookmarks of the Week (NEW SECTION - Lmk what you think! 🙂)

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AI AGENT MEME OF THE WEEK

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🕵🏻‍♂️ AI Agent Intel of the Week

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🔎 Top Agentic News

• New blog post from Sam Altman worth checking out: "Three Observations" (Sam Altman’s blog)

  • TLDR? then check out this great 1-page summary of the post that Greg Isenberg put together.

• Agent.ai, the prospective AI Agent Platform created by Hubspot’s co-founder/CTO, Races Past 500,000 Users (CX Today)

• Introducing Interrupt: The AI Agent Conference by LangChain (LangChain Blog)

  • Are there any other AI Agent focused conferences you’re planning on attending this year? Shoot me a reply and let me know.

• Google opens Gemini 2.0, its most powerful AI model, to everyone (CNBC)

  • Now go build an agent with it like this guy did!

• The Rise (and Risks) of AI Agents in Crypto: an interesting legal perspective (Fenwick)

💼 Workplace Perspectives

• AI Agents Aren't Taking Jobs, They're Remaking Them (Forbes)

• AI agents and HR: How the near future might look (HR Executive)

👀 ICYMI

• DeepSeek's R1 and OpenAI's Deep Research just redefined AI — RAG, distillation, and custom models will never be the same (VentureBeat)

🔥 Takes

• Not every AI prompt deserves multiple seconds of thinking: how Meta is teaching models to prioritize (VentureBeat)

🧰 Agentic AI tools of the Week

If any of these tools feel too technical for your background, don’t be intimidated.
Try, learn, grow.

• CrewAI’s open source version of their AI agent platform (CrewAI)

• Julep: Build and deploy AI agents with ease (Julep Docs)

• Make: AI automation platform for everyone (Make)

• Relevance AI: Enterprise-ready AI agent platform (Relevance AI)

🧠 Learning Resources of the Week

• YC Uncoded: “The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek” (Youtube)

• Stanford Webinar: “Agentic AI: A Progression of Language Model Usage” (Youtube)

• Understanding AI Agents: The Future of Autonomous Systems (DataCamp)

  • This article is from last month, but I still wanted to include because it does a great job answering the question, “What are AI Agents?” in simple language, without oversimplifying.

  • Sidebar: DataCamp is my favorite platform for learning AI and analytics skills. Check it out.

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