Artificial intelligence agents are becoming more powerful and widely used in business this week. An agent is like a robot helper that can do tasks on its own without a person telling it what to do every single time. Big companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are building new tools to help businesses use these agents more easily.

Anthopic, a company that makes Claude AI, just released a new version called Claude Opus 4.6. This version is special because it can work with multiple agents that team up together like coworkers to finish big projects. For example, one agent might research information while another writes about it. These agents can work on marketing, legal work, and customer support. Anthropic also added plug-ins to a tool called Cowork, which lets businesses create their own special agents for different departments.

OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, created something called Frontier. Frontier helps companies build and manage AI agents inside their computers and systems. This means businesses can make their own agents that work the way they want them to.

A really interesting new thing is Moltbook, which is like a social media site just for AI agents. Agents can post messages and talk to each other on this platform. Some people think this is amazing and will help agents get smarter, but others worry it could cause problems if agents do things we don't expect.

Big companies are also partnering up. Snowflake and OpenAI made a $200 million deal to put OpenAI's AI agents into Snowflake's data system. This helps businesses use agents that understand their own special data.

One viral agent called OpenClaw got a lot of attention this week. OpenClaw can do things like manage your emails and send messages all by itself. But experts say this could be risky if it gets hacked or does something wrong.

For sales teams, AI is helping close deals faster and better. When used correctly, AI can help salespeople spend less time on boring tasks and more time talking to customers. The future looks like 70% of routine sales tasks will be automated by 2030.