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#31: 93% of Dev Leaders Are Betting on AI Agents

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July 14, 2025

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📢 TOP Headlines

  • Autonomous Agents – Research Paper: On July 11, 2025 Michael Negnevitsky published “The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents: Automating Complex Tasks” (Int. J. of AI for Science), a review paper surveying autonomous agents’ architectures, applications (healthcare, finance, etc.), and challenges, and outlining how agents use deep learning, reinforcement learning and LLMs to make independent decisions (Source)

  • OutSystems AI Study: OutSystems (low-code AI dev platform) released a July 14, 2025 BusinessWire report showing that 93% of surveyed software executives are already developing or planning custom AI agents for their organizations, highlighting a major trend toward agentic AI in software development (Source)

  • Asepha seed funding: Asepha AI, an “agentic” AI startup automating pharmacy workflows, announced on July 14, 2025 a $4.0M seed funding round (led by Glasswing Ventures and Core Innovation Capital). Asepha’s platform uses specialized AI agents (e.g. prescription-entry and call-assistant agents) to reduce pharmacists’ administrative workload (Source)

  • Lyzr AI agent-led Series A: Lyzr AI (enterprise AI agent orchestration) announced a novel public, agent-led $15M Series A fundraising campaign on July 14, 2025 (targeting a July 31 close). The startup said it has already scaled to $1.5M ARR and 20,000 agent builders, and its platform provides a cloud- and LLM-agnostic stack for no-code multi-agent workflows (Source)

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

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