Why Meta’s new AI agents could make sense for small businesses

The agents may also help explain why the social media giant is spending billions to quickly develop frontier AI models.

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy.

This week, I’m focusing on Meta’s bid to deploy advanced commercial AI agents across its massive messaging network. I also look at Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s crafty defense of data center water usage, and at a dramatic shift in public sentiment against new data center projects.

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