… AI agents are notorious usage hogs, spending AI tokens like no tomorrow as they perform multi-step tasks. And if one AI agent can spend a small fortune on AI tokens, imagine how much damage a team of agents could do. …
… Now Adobe and Canva want you to abandon that approach for one where AI agents do that work for you. Adobe calls its Adobe Firefly AI Assistant and Canva calls it Canva AI 2.0, but they're similar. …
… Fast forward to May and now there's a new buzzy trend that's ready to take off: "proactive" AI i.e., AI agents that go to work without even being asked . ChatGPT jumped onto the proactive AI bandwagon early, releasing the ChatGPT Pulse feature way back in September 2025. …
… Of course, the claws on those assistants are pretty dang sharp, and this week, Microsoft and Nvidia were showing off their enterprise-grade mittens, all in the hopes of convincing you, me, and everyone else to buy laptops and desktops running on AI agents. …
… As with other personal AI agents we've seen, you'll be able to communicate with Spark via text and email, meaning you won't need to fire up an app to check in with the assistant. You could also include Spark in text chains or CC it on email threads. …
… Each week on Prompt Mode, I'll be serving up analysis of the AI trends that matter to everyday users like you and me. Stay tuned for practical AI tips, hands-on experiences with the latest AI tools, and--you guessed it--prompts to help you get the most out of your AI assistants. …
… If the answer’s no, then keep that file out of your AI’s workspace. Do put your AI assistant on a tight leash The same goes for AI coding agents. Most personal AI assistants will ask you what level of oversight you’d like over their activities. …
… As announced at I/O, Google Search tool is soaking up even more of Google's AI capabilities, with an expanded search box plus personal agents, while Gemini itself is taking on more of the tasks, such as delivering a daily brief, that I would normally associate with a personal aide or attaché. …
… "I could totally imagine that someday there's actually an AI supercomputer in your house and it's running all of your agents, it's running all of your assistants, and they're doing all kinds of things for you all the time." Well, OK, we've been told repeatedly that AI agents are the future. …
… AI agents existed well before OpenClaw, but the tool—an open-source side project from an Austrian developer who was recently scooped up by OpenAI—was the first of its kind to truly break into the mainstream. …