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30Oct/26

How Agentic AI Replaces Software

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The Tollbooth Trap: Why Commoditized Middlemen Are Losing Ground to Autonomous Intelligence.

Fri, July 30 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — The rapid evolution of generative artificial intelligence and autonomous multi-agent architectures is driving a structural transformation across the digital economy, dismantling traditional business models founded on search arbitrage, manual creative services, seat-based software licensing, and intermediation. Legacy stock photography illustrates this vulnerability, highlighted by Getty Images filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing more than 99 percent of its peak market valuation amid competition from on-demand text-to-image generators that undercut conventional pay-per-image licensing. Similar pressures are impacting online labor markets such as Upwork, where freelancers in occupations exposed to language and image models experienced a 2 percent decline in contracts and a 5 percent decrease in earnings, with high-reputation professionals disproportionately impacted as automated systems compress human skill differentials. Concurrently, commoditized intermediaries across travel booking, online retail, and mid-market SaaS face severe disintermediation. Over 100 publicly listed mid-market software providers are caught in a major squeeze between low-cost AI startups and cloud hyperscalers, prompting enterprises to replace traditional per-seat subscriptions with internal autonomous agents. Continue reading →

08Mar/26

Integrating AI Agents with Google Workspace via CLI and MCP

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The AI Brain Meets the Real World: A Guide to Function Calling

March 8, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — The provided sources describe the emergence of AI agents designed to automate productivity tasks within the Google Workspace ecosystem. A central development is the release of gws, an open-source command-line interface that unifies various Google APIs into a single, machine-readable format. This tool allows large language models to interact directly with Gmail, Calendar, and Drive by providing structured JSON outputs and pre-built agent skills. Technical tutorials illustrate how developers can use the Vercel AI SDK and Model Context Protocol (MCP) to build assistants capable of managing schedules and conducting web searches. Furthermore, the integration of the Gemini CLI with tools like Google Sheets highlights a shift toward natural language data automation. Together, these resources mark a transition from manual API management to autonomous agentic workflows powered by generative AI. Continue reading →

10Feb/23

Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

February 10, 2023Internet.google, ALPHABET, Alphabet Inc., Articles, Artificial intelligence, Baidu, Bing, Blake Lemoine, Chatbot, Creative Commons, duckduckgo, Google Search, Instant messaging, Internet bot, Internet search engines, LaMDA, Larry Page, Microsoft, Natural language parsing, Sergey Brin, Toby Walsh, Victoria, Websites, World Wide Webadmin

Toby Walsh, UNSW Sydney

Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice.

After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good ’un. But not for much longer.

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