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"Mistral's announcement captures the essential features that all of the LLM vendors have started to converge on for these "agentic" systems:

- Code execution, using Mistral's new Code Interpreter mechanism. It's Python in a server-side sandbox - OpenAI have had this for years and Anthropic launched theirs last week.
Image generation - Mistral are using Black Forest Lab FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra.

- Web search - this is an interesting variant, Mistral offer two versions: web_search is classic search, but web_search_premium "enables access to both a search engine and two news agencies: AFP and AP". Mistral don't mention which underlying search engine they use but Brave is the only search vendor listed in the subprocessors on their Trust Center so I'm assuming it's Brave Search. I wonder if that news agency integration is handled by Brave or Mistral themselves?

- Document library is Mistral's version of hosted RAG over "user-uploaded documents". Their documentation doesn't mention if it's vector-based or FTS or which embedding model it uses, which is a disappointing omission.

- Model Context Protocol support: you can now include details of MCP servers in your API calls and Mistral will call them when it needs to. It's pretty amazing to see the same new feature roll out across OpenAI (May 21st), Anthropic (May 22nd) and now Mistral (May 27th) within eight days of each other!"

simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/

Simon Willison’s WeblogBuild AI agents with the Mistral Agents APIBig upgrade to Mistral's API this morning: they've announced a new "Agents API". Mistral have been using the term "agents" for a while now. Here's [how they describe them](https://docs.mistral.ai/capabilities/agents/): > …

🔍 Not just another chatbot.
Meet Mistral 3.1 — the 24B parameter open-source LLM that sees, plans, codes, and reasons in real-time.
From 128K context to API-driven intelligence, it’s quietly shaping the future of intelligent software agents.

🚀 #Mistral3 #AIagents #OpenSourceLLM #RealTimeAI #GenerativeAI
👉 Read now:
medium.com/@rogt.x1997/not-ano

Medium · Not Another Chatbot: How Mistral 3.1 Is Quietly Building the Future of Intelligent Software AgentsBy R. Thompson (PhD)

“Telstra is expecting to shrink its #workforce by 2030 with “AI #efficiencies” potentially coming through #CustomerService, software development and the use of autonomous #AIAgents, the company has told investors on Tuesday.

The telco’s chief executive, #VickiBrady, told the #Telstra’s annual #InvestorDay on Tuesday that #ArtificialIntelligence “will be a significant unlock when it comes to enabling our #workforce”.

“We will embrace AI, as every business will need to, and we expect the pace of change over the next five years to be extraordinary,”

“Ackland said the more than $1bn of capital #expenditure and operating expenditure on #software #development and #IT was another area #AI “has the potential to fundamentally change how this is done”.

Look who’s been consulting the economic tea-leaves. Will Vicki and her team be sacked if/when the plan fails?

Of course not.

#WhiteCollar / #sackings / #australia <theguardian.com/business/2025/>

The Guardian · Telstra expects to shrink workforce as it leans in ‘hard’ on AI — including in customer serviceBy Josh Taylor

Science Fiction for Venture Capitalists disguised as futurology:

"We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes."

ai-2027.com/

AI 2027
ai-2027.comAI 2027A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

"For example, AI agents acting as government investigators might apply for a search warrant, then collect digital evidence pursuant to that warrant through digital communications, or perhaps even by directly hacking into the target’s devices. Those investigators might then pass along the evidence to AI agents acting as prosecutors, who would then prepare the complaint and subsequent pleadings, likely relying on human lawyers to approve and formally submit their written work to the court.

Before permitting such a paradigm shift in the structure of government administration, it is worth contemplating what safeguards should be in place. In a forthcoming paper, we make a simple argument: AI agents should be designed to follow the law. As a condition of their deployment in high-stakes government work, they should be trained to refuse to take action that violate a core set of legal prohibitions—including constitutional law and criminal law—that protect basic human interests, legal rights, and political institutions. We call such AI agents “Law-Following AIs,” or LFAIs. Our paper explores the importance of LFAI in both the public and private sectors, but our focus here is on AI agents employed by the government, where lawlessness poses particularly acute risks."

lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-ag

DefaultAI Agents Must Follow the LawBefore entrusting AI agents with government power, it’s essential to verify that they’ll obey the law—even when instructed not to.

💻 OpenAI just released Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for software development — and it’s not just autocomplete anymore.

Key features:
🧠 Built on a fine-tuned “codex-1” version of the o3 model
⚙️ Operates in a containerized replica of your actual dev environment
📝 Accepts prompts and instructions via an AGENTS.md file
⏱️ Can spend up to 30 minutes on a task, showing its work step-by-step
✅ Still requires manual review before integration

Codex is designed to take on rote, low-complexity engineering tasks — with traceability and context. This could be a big leap toward agentic dev workflows, but also a test of whether AI can truly own small pieces of production code.

Rolling out now to Pro, Enterprise, and Team ChatGPT users. No extra cost (yet).

#AI #Codex #OpenAI #DevTools #SoftwareEngineering #AIagents
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ope

A place to enter a prompt, set parameters, and click "code" or "ask"
Ars Technica · OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for codingBy Samuel Axon

Microsoft Pushes for Smarter, Cooperative AI Agents

At Build 2025, Microsoft unveiled plans for an “Agentic Web” a future where AI agents from different platforms collaborate and remember user interactions using open standards and efficient memory techniques.

#MicrosoftBuild #AIInnovation #AgenticWeb #OpenAIStandards #TechNews #AIFuture #Anthropic #AIagents #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/microsoft-ai-agents-