Agents Agents Everywhere.

And other AI Headlines for Board members and brand leaders

In today’s headlines, MIT launches the first public database to document information about currently deployed agentic AI systems, and Ksenia Se/Hugging Face explains how they connect with the real world.

AI Technology & Research

• What Is MCP, and Why Is Everyone - Suddenly!– Talking About It? huggingface.co

• MIT publishes AI Agent Index. MIT

• Quantum AI: What Is It and How Does It Work?. CNET

• AI Week Wrap Report: See All the Visuals in One Place. Visual Capitalist

• AI Today and Tomorrow Series #4: Frontier Apps and Bizops. BigDATAwire

• Agentic AI Strengthens Digital Adoption Platform Offerings. Forrester

• The Top Trends Shaping APIs in 2025. Nordic APIs

• Dataminr Bets Big on Agentic AI for the Future of Real-Time Data Intelligence. BigDATAwire

• AI is transitioning from relying only on human-generated data toward autonomous learning from direct experience. www.exponentialview.co

• How Digital Complexity Is Outpacing Strategic Planning. Bizzdesign

• Understanding AI Software Engineers and AI Collab Like Never Before. Medium

• The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning. magazine.sebastianraschka.com

AI in Business & Industry

• Snowflake Report Finds Early GenAI Adopters Ahead of the Curve. BigDATAwire

• OpenAI Rolls Out AI-Powered Shopping, Taking on Perplexity and Giants Like Amazon. www.adweek.com

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a warning about how fast people are embracing AI. Business Insider

• Zero-Party Data Methods That Boost Personalization by 217%. Single Grain

• The Future of Financial CRM: AI, Predictive Analytics, and Automation. Home Business Magazine

• Seizing the Transformative Potential of AI Marketing. WebProNews

• Upcycling and Upskilling With AI: Goodwill’s Steve Preston. MIT Sloan Management Review

• Enhancing Personalization and Social Engagement with AI. I Advance Senior Care

• Snowflake Report Finds Early GenAI Adopters Ahead of the Curve. BigDATAwire

• How IT leaders use agentic AI for business workflows. CIO

• Smart Answers, CIO’s chatbot. CIO

• Future of tech services: Vijay Guntur on unlocking value through AI. McKinsey & Company

• How to Run a Generative AI Developer Tooling Experiment. The New Stack

• Driving AI tool adoption — Lessons from Microsoft. newsletter.getdx.com

AI Ethics, Policy & Regulation

• Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments www.reddit.com • Nicholas Thompson explains. www.linkedin.com

• Trade mark practice in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Passle

• Artificial intelligence in journalism: new challenges for copyright law. HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte

• EU microchip strategy ‘deeply disconnected from reality’, say official auditors. the Guardian

• AI has a trust problem — Decentralized privacy-preserving tech can fix it. Cointelegraph

• Three Ways AI Can Weaken Your Cybersecurity. BigDATAwire

• Navigating Agency in an Age of Automated Thought. DEV Community

• CDT Europe’s AI Bulletin: April 2025 - Center for Democracy and Technology. Center for Democracy and Technology

• Ministers include concessions in AI copyright bill before crucial vote. the Guardian

• How to Hold General-Purpose AI Producers Accountable. MIT Sloan Management Review

AI in Media & Journalism

• Americans predict the rise of AI won’t be kind to the news they get. Nieman Lab

• BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie. the Guardian

• Wikipedia announces new AI strategy to “support human editors”. Nieman Lab