UseAI glossary
Agent
An AI that doesn't just answer: it acts, navigates, clicks, codes, chains steps with tools to complete a full mission.
In other words
The difference between an advisor who tells you what to do and an assistant who does it.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- An AI agent does something stupid: who is responsible?
When an AI agent gets it wrong with your money, who pays? The FTC refuses to make it an independent actor. What that changes for you.
- How do you monitor thirty thousand agents?
Monitoring agents that act continuously requires a precise technical setup. We explain how this control layer works, what it catches and what it lets through.
- How an agent navigates the web
A browsing agent chains together searches, reads and cross-checks to find hard-to-find information. We explain the loop, where it fails, and how to use it properly.
- An open 744-billion-parameter agent beats the best closed model on web navigation
Shanghai AI Lab has quietly released a 744-billion-parameter agent that beats GPT-5.6 Sol on a web navigation benchmark. We look at what that result actually means.
- Salesforce gives its agents first names
Salesforce has launched seven agents with first names, one per business function. We analyse what this design decision implies for the way teams use them.
- Giving an agent access to your accounts, without giving everything away
Granting an agent access is both necessary and risky. We explain the principles of least privilege as applied to AI agents, and the concrete settings to check.