AI Agents & Agentic AI
AI Agents and Agentic AI: The 2026 Landscape
Agentic AI is the shift from AI that answers to AI that acts. The 2026 landscape — platforms, players, and why agent-mediated discovery is now a communications problem.
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AI Agents & Agentic AI
The Everything-PR coverage hub for AI Agents and Agentic AI — the autonomous systems now executing multi-step work on behalf of operators. EPR tracks the agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Anthropic's Computer Use, OpenAI Operator), the Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration layer, the agentic browsing and research products (Perplexity Comet, Claude Code, ChatGPT Agents), and the operating implications for communications, marketing, and analyst relations as agents become the new buyer interface. The next layer of AI Communications.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Pendulum Launches Agentic AI for PR
Seattle's Pendulum Intelligence launches an agentic AI suite for communications teams — Ask Pendulum, plus a stack of autonomous agents for trend discovery, monitoring, and executive briefs.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Who Gets Sued When the AI Agent Lies About You
When an AI agent invents a price, recommends a competitor, or makes a defamatory claim about your brand, who is liable? The new crisis vector, explained.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Agentic Search Kills the Landing Page in 2026
Pages built for human eyes do not survive contact with AI agents. Agents scrape, score, and move. Here is what kills your conversion — and what saves it.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Agent Share Is the New Market Share: The AI Metric Brands Are Missing
Citation Share shows who gets mentioned. Agent Share shows who gets picked. In agentic AI buying, that is the only share that matters.
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Amazon v. Perplexity Hits the Ninth Circuit Thursday
The Ninth Circuit hears oral arguments June 11 in Amazon v. Perplexity — the first federal appellate test of whether an AI agent acting on explicit user authorization counts as an authorized visitor to a logged-in commercial website.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Hermes Auth Setup: Why Most Users Hit a Wall
Many Hermes users struggle with authentication. This guide explores the three auth paths, common failure points, and post-April 2026 operational realities, offering practical solutions for a smoother setup. Learn why most users hit a wall and how to overcome it.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Can You Trust an AI Platform's Billing? The Hermes Test Case
The Hermes story is the public moment at which AI platform billing stopped being simple. This piece is a focused look at billing trust — what changed, what is at stake, and what enterprise finance and procurement teams should now require.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
The Communications Lessons of OpenClaw/Hermes
The Anthropic Hermes incident was a three-week crisis triggered by a billing bug that went viral. This case study examines the communications strategy—what worked, what failed, and operational lessons for AI platform teams managing technical crises in public.
AI Agents & Agentic AI
Decagon
Decagon owns the AI-native SaaS customer service market the way Sierra owns the Fortune 500. EPR ranks Decagon second in customer service agents.