#21: Real-World Battles Begin in the Agent Arena

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Oliver Parker
June 09, 2025

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In today’s Agent Pulse:

  • 📢 Top AI Agents News

  • ⚔️ Agent Arena

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  • Papers

The recent announcements demonstrate a clear industry trend toward enterprise-ready AI agent platforms that can operate at scale.

📢 TOP AI Agents News

Thomson Reuters introduced “agentic AI” in its CoCounsel suite – unveiling AI agents that can plan, reason and act autonomously within complex tax, audit and accounting workflows (Source)

Adobe unveiled “Product Support Agent” on June 4, 2025 – a new AI assistant in Adobe’s Experience Platform that streamlines troubleshooting and support case management by autonomously gathering context and pre-filling support tickets (Source)

OpenAI announced on June 3, 2025 that “Codex” – its cloud-based AI coding agent – is now available to ChatGPT Plus users, adding the ability to give Codex internet access during task execution (Source)

Amperity launched “Chuck Data” on June 9, 2025 – its first AI agent for customer data engineering, trained on data from 400+ brands to autonomously handle tasks like identity resolution and PII tagging (Source)

Tempus AI (healthtech) revealed on June 3, 2025 that it had quietly embedded over 1,000 autonomous AI agents into hospital EHR systems to automate data tasks – news that coincided with an 18% surge in the company’s stock price (Source)

Artefact (France) showcased its “Rob’Art” robotic agents at VivaTech 2025 (early June) – AI-driven robots that draw on demand and play interactive games – illustrating how conversational AI agents can directly control robots to perform creative and engaging tasks(Source)

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ServiceNow Yokohama Release Expands AI Agent Ecosystem - ServiceNow announced their Yokohama platform release adding thousands of preconfigured AI agents across CRM, HR, IT and other business functions, positioning itself as an "AI agent control tower" for enterprises

Microsoft AutoGen v0.4 launched with Structured Retrieval Augmentation, cutting computational costs by 67% while enabling cross-platform agent collaboration via Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Workday Agent Partner Network debuted with Accenture, AWS, Google, and 12+ partners connecting AI agents to its Agent System of Record for unified workforce management

IBM watsonx Orchestrate added Agentic RAG, handling complex multi-source queries to automate 87% of repetitive tasks with 94% error reduction

Zendesk AI Agents Advanced integrated real-time reasoning, emotion-aware responses, and intent/sentiment tracking across ticket lifecycles

Adobe Agent Orchestrator expanded with Data Insights Agent and Product Support Agent, resolving 80% of customer queries autonomously

Emergence AI launched autonomous agent creators, enabling AI to build and optimize other agents with minimal human input

Salesforce Agentforce adopted A2A Protocol, enabling cross-platform agent collaboration with 73% autonomous customer resolution

Salesforce announced that its Agentforce AI agent platform achieved FedRAMP High authorization, allowing U.S. federal agencies to deploy its autonomous agents for processing and storing highly sensitive data under stringent security controls

LangGraph introduced streaming state management for 1,000+ node workflows, slashing debugging time by 75%

AMD’s Agent Laboratory released, transforming LLMs into research assistants via optimized hardware-software integrationServiceNow Yokohama Release Expands AI Agent Ecosystem - ServiceNow announced their Yokohama platform release adding thousands of preconfigured AI agents across CRM, HR, IT and other business functions, positioning itself as an "AI agent control tower" for enterprises

F5 Networks announced on June 6, 2025 the acquisition of Fletch – a security startup building an agent-based AI for threat intelligence – to integrate agentic AI capabilities into F5’s Application Delivery and Security Platform

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🎓 Papers

  • Academic (arXiv): A taxonomy distinguishing narrow LLM-driven “AI Agents” from broader “Agentic AI” systems, mapping their applications and challenge. (Source)

  • Academic (arXiv): Paper argues that “AI Agentic” is often a buzzword for traditional autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, urging the field to leverage decades of existing multi-agent research rather than “reinvent the wheel”. (Source)

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