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Priyansh Khodiyar@CustomGPT //
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining momentum as a key framework for standardizing interactions between AI agents and various applications. Developed initially by Anthropic, MCP aims to provide a universal method for AI models to connect with external tools, data sources, and systems, similar to how USB-C streamlines connections for devices. Microsoft is actively embracing this protocol, introducing MCP servers for its Dynamics 365 platform. Furthermore, companies are integrating MCP into their APIs, indicating a widespread movement towards its adoption.

The core challenge MCP addresses is the current fragmented and inconsistent nature of AI integrations. Without a standardized protocol, developers often resort to custom code and brittle integrations, leading to systems that are difficult to maintain and scale. MCP standardizes how context is defined, passed, and validated, ensuring that AI agents receive the correct information in the right format, regardless of the data source. This standardization promises to alleviate the "It Works on My Machine… Sometimes" syndrome, where AI applications function inconsistently across different environments.

MCP's adoption is expected to pave the way for more autonomous enterprises and smarter systems. Microsoft envisions a future where AI agents proactively identify problems, suggest solutions, and maintain context across conversations, thereby transforming workflows across diverse fields such as marketing and software engineering. The evolution of identity standards, particularly OAuth, is crucial to secure agent access across connected systems, ensuring a robust and reliable ecosystem for AI agent interactions. This collaborative effort to build standards will empower the next generation of AI agents to operate effectively and securely.

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References :
  • CustomGPT: Problems MCP Model Context Protocol solves
  • hackernoon.com: AI Agents, MCP Protocols, and the Future of Smart Systems
  • www.madrona.com: The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna
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Tor Constantino,@Tor Constantino //
The rise of AI agents is gaining significant momentum, attracting substantial interest and creating new job opportunities across various industries. Recent publications and industry initiatives highlight the transformative potential of AI agents in automating complex tasks and optimizing existing workflows. IBM, for instance, has launched a major agentic AI initiative, introducing a suite of domain-specific AI agents that can be integrated using the watsonx Orchestrate framework, aiming to provide comprehensive observability capabilities across the entire agent lifecycle, while UiPath has launched a next-gen platform for agentic automation designed to orchestrate AI agents, robots, and humans on a single intelligent system to autonomously manage complex tasks across enterprise environments.

AI agents are evolving from simple tools into sophisticated systems capable of reasoning, adapting, and collaborating in more human-like ways. IBM is providing a range of tools that enable organizations to build their agents in minutes. Local AI agents are also gaining traction, offering customization and enhanced privacy by allowing users to run powerful, customizable AI models on their own computers. Tools like Ollama and Langflow are simplifying the process of building and deploying local AI agents, making it accessible to individuals without extensive coding expertise. Outshift by Cisco has achieved a 10x productivity boost with their Agentic AI Platform Engineer, demonstrating the potential of AI agents to significantly improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround times by automating commonly requested developer tasks.

These advancements are paving the way for a new era of intelligent automation, where AI agents can seamlessly integrate into existing business processes and augment human capabilities. The evolution of AI agents is not only transforming enterprise automation but also unlocking new possibilities for innovation and productivity across various sectors. As the demand for AI agents continues to grow, professionals with expertise in their design, deployment, and orchestration will be highly sought after, making it essential to understand the foundational concepts and advanced implementation strategies of agentic AI.

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  • Tor Constantino: Mastercard and Visa debut AI agents that can research, recommend and pay for purchases — ushering in a new era of autonomous shopping and agentic commerce.
  • learn.aisingapore.org: of AI agents has taken the world by storm. Agents can interact with the world around them, write articles (not this one though), take actions on your behalf, and generally make the difficult part of automating any task easy and approachable.  Agents take aim at the most difficult parts of processes and churn through the...
  • Upward Dynamism: AI agents are the next evolutionary step of ChatGPT & Co. Knowing how they work, their real use cases, strengths and limits is this simple.
  • www.marktechpost.com: In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, leveraging specialized AI agents to handle discrete aspects of analysis is key to delivering timely, accurate insights. Agno’s lightweight, model-agnostic framework empowers developers to rapidly spin up purpose-built agents, such as our Finance Agent for structured market data and Risk Assessment Agent for volatility and sentiment analysis, without boilerplate or
  • Upward Dynamism: 15-Min Guide: Local AI Agents on Your PC with Ollama & Langflow
  • twimlai.com: Podcast interview with Josh Tobin discussing OpenAI's approach to building AI agents.
  • Dremio: Blog post discussing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an interoperability layer for AI agents.
  • The Register - Software: AI agents promise big things. How can we support them?
  • The Rundown AI: Exclusive: UiPath launches next-gen platform for 'Agentic Automation'
  • Data Phoenix: FutureHouse launches platform with "superintelligent" scientific AI agents
  • the-decoder.com: Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent
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@www.bigdatawire.com //
Dataminr and IBM are making significant strides in leveraging agentic AI to enhance security operations. Dataminr has introduced Dataminr Intel Agents, an autonomous AI capability designed to provide contextual analysis of emerging events, threats, and risks. These Intel Agents are part of a broader AI roadmap aimed at improving real-time decision-making by providing continuously updated insights derived from public and proprietary data. This allows organizations to respond faster and more effectively to dynamic situations, sorting through the noise to understand what matters most in real-time.

IBM is also delivering autonomous security operations through agentic AI, with new capabilities designed to transform cybersecurity operations. This includes driving efficiency and precision in threat hunting, detection, investigation, and response. IBM is launching Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM), an agentic AI system designed for autonomous threat triage, investigation, and remediation with minimal human intervention. ATOM is powered by IBM's Threat Detection and Response (TDR) services, leveraging an AI agentic framework and orchestration engine to augment existing security analytics solutions.

These advancements are critical as cybersecurity faces a unique moment where AI-enhanced threat intelligence can give defenders an advantage over evolving threats. Agentic AI is redefining the cybersecurity landscape, creating new opportunities and demanding a rethinking of how to secure AI. By automating threat hunting and improving detection and response processes, companies like Dataminr and IBM are helping organizations unlock new value from security operations and free up valuable security resources, enabling them to focus on high-priority threats.

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  • IBM - Announcements: New advanced AI capabilities help transform cybersecurity operations, driving efficiency and precision in threat hunting, detection, investigation and response
  • www.bigdatawire.com: Dataminr, a real-time AI-powered event detection platform, has introduced Dataminr Intel Agents, an autonomous AI capability designed to provide contextual analysis of emerging events, threats, and risks.
  • www.infoworld.com: IBM’s watsonx.data could simplify agentic AI-related data issues
  • www.networkworld.com: IBM wrangles AI agents to work across complex enterprise environments
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