Mint: “Agentic browsers are the new darlings of the web now. Perplexity has its Comet, OpenAI Atlas, and others such as Dia, Fellou, Opera Neon, and more. Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge are adding agentic features. These browsers shift the web from a click-and-search world to an AI-powered conversational format where tasks are done for you, autonomously. These new browsers can already perform multi-step tasks that once needed your careful attention. Tell the browser to book a flight, and it will compare fares, fill in your details, and pay with a saved card. Ask it to return an item, and it’ll locate the order, print the label, and schedule a pickup. They can draft emails, post updates, complete forms, and even log into your office dashboard to generate a report—all without you touching a key. That’s why it’s called the era of the zero-click web.”
Manu Joseph: “The analysis that your poor attention span is a creation of modern tech is not the correct way to frame the problem. What’s instead happening is that the people who want your attention are not producing anything engaging enough for you not to stray. Once, they could get away because you didn’t have many choices. But now that you have many distractions to choose from, those people or their industries are exposed, and they are trying to blame it on the times. People have not given up on a great book. They are only bored of acclaimed dull books. They are bored only of monopolies held by a small club of overrated people who produce duds. People were right to get bored of Test cricket, where batsmen dedicated to the dullness of safety could plod forever and survive on sheer banality. And of cinema, where stardom was transmitted from star to star.”
SaaStr: “Pick an agentic AI product. Pick the simplest possible one use case. Deploy it yourself. Train it yourself. QA it yourself. Test it yourself. If you deploy an agent yourself—actually hands-on keyboard—you’ll understand this technology in a way that matters. Not your team. You. Yourself.”
FT: “Artificial intelligence groups are on a hiring spree for a rare kind of software developer who can code and talk to customers, as they race to increase adoption of their cutting-edge technology. Anthropic, OpenAI and Cohere are recruiting for so-called forward-deployed engineers, a new job for generative AI companies, as part of a push to generate more revenues by installing specialists within businesses to help them customise their AI models.”
