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agent

[ey-juhnt] / ˈeɪ dʒənt /


NOUN
power, instrument for achievement
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STRONG


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The social-media giant this week introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to help the average consumer.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

Raman, who was recently endorsed by DSA’s L.A. chapter, asserts that fixing street lights and potholes isn’t an ideological endeavor, however, and — not unlike Pratt — has framed herself as an agent for change.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Of more immediate concern, he said, is the potential for an agent to accidentally leak personal information or delete important emails.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

To that end, each agent runs on its own “dedicated computer in the cloud” and no one else’s agent can reach it, Meta said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

When the British salesman and MI6 agent Greville Wynne visited Moscow, Penkovsky slipped into Wynne’s hotel room.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

On a call with investors in July, Zuckerberg called personal agents the “foundation” for new products and revenue lines down the road.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

Last year, Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations agents also found a tunnel that ran under the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico into El Paso.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

"I'm just trying to view myself as a manager, and I'm managing some people, and I'm also managing AI agents, or AI loops, or whatever you want to call it."

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

The tech company is betting that making AI agents easy to use will get normies to adopt them in their daily lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Little did they know, two FBI agents were riding with them.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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