Performativ, a technology company, announced the launch of two new offerings: Custom Agents and the AgentKit Builder. These new capabilities are specifically designed to help financial institutions (such as banks and asset managers) safely and compliantly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) agents into their core operations and existing enterprise infrastructure. The solution is built to meet stringent regulatory oversight requirements, including those similar to the European AI Act, by ensuring all agent actions are logged, auditable, permissioned, and have traceability for regulatory review, thus transitioning enterprises from AI experimentation to secure, governed deployment. Continue reading
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NotebookLM: AI-Driven Knowledge Management and Learning Tool
Nov. 3, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool designed to accelerate learning and knowledge sharing by generating insights based on a user’s uploaded sources. This tool allows users to upload documents like lecture notes or strategy plans, after which NotebookLM can answer questions, generate summaries, and create study materials such as quizzes, with all responses including in-line citations linking back to the original source material for accuracy. Continue reading
Doomscrolling Explained and how AI agents and related tools can help mitigate the habit
Nov. 3, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — Doomscrolling (or doomsurfing) is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading or watching a large quantity of negative, distressing, or alarming news and content online, particularly on social media and news websites. Continue reading
AI Classification for Google Drive Security
Nov. 2, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — The white paper from Google outlines their AI Classification for Google Drive solution, which uses custom, privacy-preserving AI models to automatically identify and label an organisation’s sensitive data at scale. The document explains that this capability addresses the challenge of manually classifying the exponentially increasing volume of data in Google Workspace, providing a more robust foundation for data protection, auditing, and records management. Continue reading
What are AI agents used for?
Nov. 2, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — AI agents are primarily used in specialised applications designed to act alongside humans within specific fields and manage complex business processes, often forming the basis of “artificial specialised intelligence” (ASI). Continue reading
AI’s Cronos Syndrome: Labs Versus App Developers
Nov. 2, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — An article from The Economist titled “OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome,” examines the emerging competitive dynamic between large language model (LLM) providers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and the specialised AI application developers that build their businesses atop these models. The article uses the metaphor of Cronos devouring his children to illustrate the fear that the powerful, highly-valued AI labs may eventually usurp the profits of the smaller app-makers like Cursor and Harvey. Continue reading
Google AI Studio: Vibe Coding Innovation
Nov. 1, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — Google Cloud announced major updates to the Google AI Studio platform, focusing on making app development faster and more accessible. The Google Cloud introduces “Vibe coding,” a new feature designed to allow users to build working, AI-powered prototypes simply from a single text prompt, dramatically reducing the time required compared to traditional methods. Continue reading
Gemini Enterprise: Empowering Workflows with Google AI Agents
Oct. 31, 2025 /Mpelembe Mdia/ — This is an overview of Gemini Enterprise, a platform designed to integrate Google AI capabilities into enterprise workflows. This secure platform aims to overcome limitations imposed by siloed applications by empowering employees to discover, create, share, and run AI Agents. Continue reading
AI Hype Check: Fortune 100 Hiring Trends
The analysis, which examined over ten thousand job postings, found a surprisingly low demand for AI-ready workers, with only 11 per cent of positions mentioning AI, suggesting a potential disconnect between corporate AI ambition and practical implementation. Furthermore, the report highlights an expensive “fire-to-hire cycle” among these top companies, noting that mass layoffs are prevalent but do not appear to be primarily aimed at building a more AI-ready workforce. The source includes commentary from Orgvue’s Chief Product Officer, Jessica Modrall, who asserts that while AI will transform the workforce, many organizations are mistakenly assuming it will simply replace staff. Continue reading
AI Agents and the Human-AI Collaborative Intelligence
Oct. 30, 2025 /Mpelembe Media/ — AI Agents are autonomous software systems that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to perceive their environment, reason, plan, and execute actions to achieve a specific goal on behalf of a user, often without continuous human oversight. They essentially act as intelligent, goal-driven software robots. Continue reading
