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Writer Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor for AI Agent Development
Writer Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor for AI Agent Development

Business Wire

timea day ago

  • Business
  • Business Wire

Writer Named a Gartner® Cool Vendor for AI Agent Development

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Writer, the leader in enterprise generative AI, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Cool Vendors™report for AI Agent Development. Over the last 5 years, Writer has pioneered the enterprise AI category with the world's only enterprise-focused AI research lab and now leads the industry with an end-to-end approach to agentic AI. Today, Writer's platform enables IT and business teams from hundreds of leading enterprises to collaboratively build and scale AI agents that streamline workflows across departments. According to Gartner, 'by 2029, over 60% of enterprises will adopt AI agent development platforms to automate complex workflows previously requiring human coordination.' The report states, 'Demand for AI agent development is increasing as organizations seek hyperefficiency. Software engineering leaders will find the vendors in this report valuable for addressing the growing demand from business and technology stakeholders to develop agents that will help them deliver business value faster.' Based on Writer's understanding, Cool Vendors were selected for their ability to provide both the foundational tools to harness the potential of AI agents, as well as innovative value-add functionality. Writer's primary takeaway from the report is that enterprises must invest in vendors that can offer scalability, interoperability, and stability, in addition to performance and security, to maximize long term value. 'Being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Agent Development is an important recognition of Writer's platform,' said May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder of Writer. 'In a noisy market full of overpromises, Writer delivers what enterprises actually need: agentic systems that are accurate, governed, and built to scale. Our platform gives IT and business teams one place to build, activate, and supervise AI agents — grounded in business context, powered by our enterprise-grade LLMs, and built for real ROI.' Writer has recently released new product and tech innovations, including: Palmyra X5: Writer's latest foundation model, topping benchmarks for speed, cost efficiency, and large context performance. AI HQ: Writer's centralized hub to build, activate, and supervise AI agents across the enterprise. Includes a library of 100+ ready-to-use AI agents across industries including finance, healthcare, retail, and technology. Together, Palmyra X5 and AI HQ give enterprises unmatched power to deploy real-world AI agents that support use cases like market intelligence, financial reporting, legal analysis, medical record synthesis, and customer experience optimization. Hundreds of leading enterprises – including Intuit, Kenvue, Marriott, Qualcomm, Uber, Vanguard, and more – use Writer to reinvent business processes with AI at the center. Readers can access a complimentary copy of the report here. Disclaimer Gartner, Cool Vendors for AI Agent Development, Adrian Leow, Jim Scheibmeir, Nitish Tyagi, Manjunath Bhat, 27 May 2025 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Writer Writer is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. With Writer's end-to-end platform, teams can build, activate, and supervise AI agents that are grounded in their company's data and fueled by Writer's enterprise-grade LLMs. From faster product launches to deeper financial research to better clinical trials, companies are quickly transforming their most important business processes for the AI era in partnership with Writer. Founded in 2020, Writer delivers unmatched ROI for hundreds of customers like Accenture, Intuit, Marriott, Uber, and Vanguard and is backed by investors including Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, Balderton, B Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, and others. Learn more at

AI+ Summit: Tipping points galore
AI+ Summit: Tipping points galore

Axios

time2 days ago

  • Business
  • Axios

AI+ Summit: Tipping points galore

AI is hitting multiple tipping points in its impact on the tech industry, communication, government and human culture — and speakers at Axios' AI+ Summit in New York Wednesday mapped the transformative moment. 1. The software business is the first to feel AI's full force, and we're just beginning to see what happens when companies start using AI tools to accelerate advances in AI itself. "We're using agents to build agents," May Habib, CEO of Writer, told Axios' Ina Fried. "We've been saying for a long time that software is eating the world — now AI is eating the software," said Danny Allan, CTO of AI-security firm Snyk. 2. Chatbots are changing how people interact with one another. Boston Consulting Group managing director Vladimir Lukic said he's now using AI to game out conversations with CEOs in advance of meetings. When he tells them that he's asked a chatbot what questions the CEO is likely to ask him, the CEO will invariably want to know the prediction — and that ends up being what they talk about. 3. Government isn't likely to moderate AI's risks. With the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress largely pulling back from AI regulation, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sounded an alarm over a provision in the House-approved Trump spending bill that would bar states from passing new AI rules for a decade. "We have to stop this," she said, "but I'm right now not holding my breath" that Washington will reverse course. 4. Culture makers fear AI will undermine the urge to create. AI builders used mountains of "publicly available" data assembled from the collected creative works of humankind in order to train their models.

The Prompt: ChatGPT Generates Fake Passports
The Prompt: ChatGPT Generates Fake Passports

Forbes

time15-04-2025

  • Business
  • Forbes

The Prompt: ChatGPT Generates Fake Passports

Welcome back to The Prompt, Chip giant Nvidia said on Monday it will start manufacturing AI supercomputers— machines that can process copious amounts of data and run complex algorithms— entirely within the U.S. for the first time. The announcement comes after President Trump signaled that imported semiconductors would be targeted by tariffs this week and announced a national security trade investigation into chip imports from China. Nvidia said it has already started producing its Blackwell chips in TSMC's Phoenix, Arizona plant and plans to work with partners like FoxConn and Wistron to set up other factories in Houston and Dallas. It plans to build robots to operate the facilities, which will be designed using 'digital twins'— a virtual simulation of their real world objects and environments —to build the plants faster. But even keeping chips aside, Trump's tariffs could make building AI datacenters more expensive, as they are reliant on raw materials imported from other countries, Forbes reported. And if you haven't gotten a chance yet, check out our seventh annual AI 50 list here. Now let's get into the headlines. Community colleges across the country are facing an onslaught of enrollments from 'bot' students who enroll in classes by the hundreds to bilk tens of millions of dollars in state and federal aid money, Voice of San Diego reported. These 'bot' students use fake aliases and submit AI-generated homework in order to stay 'enrolled' long enough to collect aid. In 2024, about 25% of community college applicants in California were bots. Google has trained an AI model that aims to decipher patterns and structures in dolphin sounds with a goal of understanding their meaning and ascertaining whether they have language. Named DolphinGamma, the model consists of 400 million parameters and is trained on data from the Wild Dolphin Project, a nonprofit that studies and collects data on Atlantic spotted dolphins. The end goal of the project is to build technology that might facilitate two-way interactions between human researchers and dolphins in the ocean. AI continues to be a white hot focus for companies–as does the talent needed to build it. To that end, Google Deepmind makes its employees sign noncompetes that can last as long as a year, preventing them from joining a rival for 12 months after they stop working at Google, according to Business Insider. The employees continue to get paid during the extended garden leave period. Nando De Frietas, a former Google DeepMind director, shared his frustration with the contracts on X: 'It's abuse of power, which does not justify any end.' Writer CEO and cofounder May Habib. May Habib, CEO and cofounder of $1.9 billion-valued enterprise AI startup Writer, says she isn't just selling her company's AI software–which allows 300 companies like Intuit, Salesforce and Uber to build AI apps for specific functions across marketing, HR and sales–she's 'selling a different way of doing things.' The company, featured on the Forbes AI 50 list, is expanding to launch a new platform for AI 'agents' — systems that can carry out specific work autonomously. From pitching clients like Visa on her nascent machine learning based translation software back in 2016 to now training a family of cost efficient AI models dubbed Palmyra (named after the ancient Syrian city) for the enterprise world, the company's strategy has remained the same: building what its customers want. Researchers from Cato Security have found that ChatGPT can easily generate fake documents like passports, driver's licenses and social security cards. In late March, OpenAI added new image generation capabilities to its star product ChatGPT. The update went viral, resulting in a deluge of Studio Ghibli-inspired AI-generated images posted across social media and drawing millions of users to the platform. But new research from cybersecurity firm Cato Networks has found that ChatGPT can now be tricked into creating a slew of fake documents, including passports, social security cards and driver licenses. It can also be used to spin up convincing counterfeit checks and receipts. OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson said 'our goal is to give users as much creative freedom as possible.' Images generated by ChatGPT include C2PA metadata to identify them as AI-generated and OpenAI takes action against people who violate the company's usage policies. Etay Maor, a chief security strategist at Cato Networks who has been studying cyber gangs for the past 20 years, said these forged documents are typically sold on the dark web and have largely been difficult to obtain. But thanks to AI tools like ChatGPT, creating realistic fake documents has become orders of magnitude easier and faster. Documents like passports and driver's licenses are key to verifying a person's identity and manipulated IDs open the floodgates for criminals to commit financial, insurance and medical fraud. The implications for misuse are broad and wide ranging, from gaining access to bank accounts to prescription abuse, Maor said. 'Not just somebody who's a professional criminal, anybody can do this. And that's what's super troubling about this,' he said. In a matter of seconds, he was also able to prompt ChatGPT to create a fake passport of a person that somewhat resembled me. The use of AI by cybercriminals isn't new. ChatGPT other AI tools have been used to create malware code, write phishing emails and supercharge cyberattacks. It's not just AI tools that generate text, but technologies that cater to other mediums like voice, images and videos have added extra layers that help cybercriminals carry out complex fraud. 'All these different elements that build trust— style of a person, their visuals, their voice, their official credentials—all these building blocks for trust are disappearing,' Maor said. A startup called InTouch uses AI to call your parents or grandparents to check in on them and have a conversation if you don't have the time, 404 Media reported. The AI can be prompted to speak about and ask questions about certain topics. After the call is over, the person who sets up the call receives an AI-generated summary of the call and notes about the person's mood. 'The idea of having an AI call your lonely relative because you can't or don't feel like it is dystopian, insulting, and especially non-human, even more so than other AI-based creations,' Joseph Cox writes. Education secretary Linda McMahon repeatedly confused AI (artificial intelligence) with A1(steak sauce brand) while giving a speech at ASU+GSV summit in San Diego. The sauce brand seized the moment, sharing an image on Instagram: 'You heard her. Every school should have access to A1.'

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