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Today's Highlights
- Companies like Klarna learned that replacing whole jobs with AI agents fails. The winning strategy is automating tasks within redesigned workflows using many specialized agents.
- AI token costs have plummeted, but spending is surging. This is because agentic workflows use exponentially more tokens to autonomously complete jobs, unlocking new automation.
- A new security paradigm is emerging: AI agents must be treated as users with their own identities, not just tools with API keys, to mitigate risks of unauthorized actions.
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