#30: Super Agents, Secure Agents, Finance Agents — This Week, Everyone Built One

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• 📢 Top News

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• ✨ Featured Agents

• 🎓 Free courses

• 🎓 Must Read Papers

📢 TOP AI Agents News

• Google announced Memory Bank for Vertex AI Agent Engine (public preview), a persistent-memory feature that lets AI agents remember long-term context and user preferences across sessions. (Source)

• Google added agentic modes to Firebase Studio: a new “Agent” mode (Gemini can propose code changes with user approval) and “Agent (Auto-run)” mode (Gemini applies changes autonomously), plus Model Context Protocol (MCP) support and integrated Gemini CLI tooling for AI-assisted development. (Source)

• Mistral AI released updated Devstral code models, including a new Devstral Medium (via API) and an improved Devstral Small 1.1 (open-sourced under Apache 2.0), claiming state-of-the-art performance for coding tasks among open models (Source)

• OpenAI (Browser) – Reuters reported July 9 that OpenAI is close to launching an AI-powered web browser with an integrated chat interface and agent capabilities, positioning it as a challenger to Google Chrome (Source)

• Anthropic (Education) previewed new Claude for Education integrations with Canvas, Panopto, and Wiley, enabling students to reference lecture transcripts and peer-reviewed content directly within their Claude AI conversations. (Source)

• Anthropic (Enterprise) announced that Lawrence Livermore National Lab is expanding Claude for Enterprise to its entire 10,000-person workforce, bringing advanced AI assistance to national-security and climate-science researchers across the lab. (Source)

• Anthropic proposed a targeted transparency framework for “frontier” AI, urging top labs to publicly disclose safety practices and evaluation results for their most powerful models to ensure accountability. (Source)

• NinjaTech AI unveiled Super Agent, a new general-purpose AI agent deployed on dedicated VMs to execute complex workflows end-to-end; the launch included a partnership with Cerebras to power the model with wafer-scale acceleration (Super Agent goes live July 9 at $100/month). (source)

• Boosted.ai launched a new version of Alfa, its agentic AI platform for investment research, which learns user preferences and spins up specialized “agents” to proactively surface key financial insights. (Source)

• Cognizant announced Agent Foundry, a platform for enterprises to design, deploy, and orchestrate autonomous AI agents at scale, enabling businesses to automate operations with multiple coordinated agents (Source)

• Ramp unveiled its first AI assistants, called Agents for Controllers, which autonomously review company expense reports and enforce finance policies; built on OpenAI’s new “reasoning” models, these agents handle spend management tasks at scale. (Source)

• IBM & Elior Group announced a collaboration to build an “Agentic AI & Data Factory”, a centralized platform for deploying and orchestrating AI agents across Elior’s global business units to optimize operations and data-driven decision-making (Source)

• New Generation launched an AI-native commerce platform for agentic storefronts, enabling AI agents to interact with e-commerce sites (including secure checkout) on behalf of users, in partnership with Visa to handle payments and fraud protection (Source)

• Castellum.AI (Funding) announced an $8.5 million Series A round for its financial-crime compliance platform, which uses in-house AI agents to perform AML/KYC screening; the explainable agents reportedly cut false positives by over 90% in vetting transactions. (Source)

• Pokee AI (Funding), a Seattle startup building reinforcement-learning AI agents to automate online workflows, raised a $12 million seed round (led by Point72 Ventures). (Source)

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🎓 FREE Courses

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3. HuggingFace: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

4. Microsoft: Generative AI for Beginners

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🎓 Must Read Papers

1. KPMG: AI Quarterly Pulse Survey: Q2 2025 (Doc)

2. Stanford University: Future of Work with AI Agents (Doc)

3. Google: Guide for using AI at work (Doc)

4. Google: An Introduction to AI Agent Security (Doc)

5. Thomson Reuters: Agentic AI 101 (Doc)

6. OpenAI: A Practical Guide to building Agents (Doc)

7. BCG: AI at Work (Doc)

8. ServiceNow: Enterprise AI Maturity Index 2025 (Doc)

9. IBM: Agentic AI in Financial Services (Doc)

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