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Agent Plugins Explained: What the New AI Standard Actually Does

Ken Yeung — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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You may think of the agentic world as the Wild West, but over the past two years, technologists have been developing rules of the road. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol settled how agents access external tools. Google’s Agent2Agent and Cisco-backed AGNTCY took on the question of how agents reach each other. Now, there’s Agent Plugins, a […]

Adobe’s AI Collaborators Turn Outside AI Agents Into Governed Workfront Teammates

Ken Yeung — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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Adobe signage inside the Venetian Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada for the company’s 2026 Summit. Credit: Ken Yeung

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At the Adobe Summit last April, the company announced the Workflow Optimization Agent designed to automate “intelligent, connected actions” across workflows. Four months later, the agent—since rebranded as AI Collaborator—is now generally available. Through Adobe Workfront, the company’s work management application, users can delegate work to these virtual teammates similarly to how they might with […]

Why I Built Dossier, the Job Tracker My Spreadsheet Couldn’t Be

Ken Yeung — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:44:32 +0000

Throughout the periods of unemployment I’ve experienced during my professional career, a spreadsheet proved to be vital in managing the job search process. Yet, although setting it up was easy and fairly low-tech, keeping it updated was manual and tedious. Updating a listing for a job I applied for required modifying numerous cells in a […]

Why AWS Built Dogwood, an Open-Source Policy Language That Limits What AI Agents Can Do Over Time

Ken Yeung — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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You’ve tasked your AI agent to process vendor payments on your behalf. An invoice arrives one day, and the agent autonomously handles the transaction. It runs like clockwork—until the morning you find your bank account overdrawn. Digging in, you discover payments to vendors who never submitted an invoice and, in a few cases, never delivered […]

Adobe Widens Its ChatGPT Presence With Plugin Built for Creative Workflows

Ken Yeung — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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When Adobe began abandoning shrink-wrapped software for the cloud in 2011, it dragged the entire industry toward subscriptions. Now the company is attempting its next migration, this time into territory it doesn’t control: chatbots. On Thursday, Adobe launched a plugin for ChatGPT that brings more than 70 of its tools natively into an assistant used […]

Washington’s Tech Ecosystem Still Traces Back to Microsoft and UW: WTIA

Ken Yeung — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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In 2015, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) published a sprawling infographic that traced more than 600 homegrown companies back to the people who started them. The “Seattle Tech Universe” was cartography with a thesis: the region builds more than Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, and Boeing. Eleven years later, the WTIA is redrawing it. At this […]

Live Blog: Samsung Galaxy Unpacked, July 2026

Ken Yeung — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:55:58 +0000

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Samsung is expected to announce its newest lineup of foldable phones and smartwatches at its latest Galaxy Unpacked event, set to take place on July 22. Speculation among the media and pundits is that we could see the new Z Fold 8 and Z Fold 8 Ultra, along with the next-generation Galaxy Watch. There’s also […]

Introducing OnCue: A Live Newsroom for Your Own Site

Ken Yeung — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:41:01 +0000

One piece of entrepreneurial advice I picked up in Silicon Valley has stuck with me: Build something that solves a problem you have. It’s an idea that became my guiding principle as I set out on what I’ve been calling my “summer of building”—a run of months spent turning app concepts into working tools. It’s […]

Zscaler Takes Zero Trust Beyond Human Users to Govern the Rise of AI Agents

Ken Yeung — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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As new AI agents accelerate their entry into the workplace, cybersecurity platform Zscaler is extending its Zero Trust Exchange to govern how these autonomous systems connect, access data, and operate across enterprise networks. On Tuesday, the company unveiled three new capabilities—AI Broker, AI Access Graph, and Endpoint AI Security—that together constitute what Zscaler calls the […]

OpenClaw Won. Big Tech Is Now Playing Its Game.

Ken Yeung — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:08:55 +0000

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The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function calling took them a step further, allowing models to query databases or call APIs, but […]