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Airtable is applying its data-first design philosophy to AI agents with the debut of Superagent on Tuesday. It's a standalone research agent that deploys teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel to complete research tasks. The technical innovation lies in how Superagent's orchestrator maintains context. Earlier agent systems used simple model routing where an intermediary filtered information between models. Airtable's orchestrator maintains full visibility over the entire execution journey: the initial plan, execution steps and sub-agent results. This creates what co-founder Howie Liu calls "a coherent journey" where the orchestrator made all decisions along the way. "It ultimately comes down to how you leverage the model's self-reflective capability," Liu told VentureBeat. Liu co-founded Airtable more than a dozen years ago with a cloud-based relational database at its core. Airtable built its business on a singular bet: Software should adapt to how people work, not the other way around. That philosophy powered growth to over 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, using its platform to build custom applications fitted to their workflows. The superagent technology is an evolution of capabilities originally developed by DeepSky (formerly known as Gradient ), which Airtable acquired in October 2025. From structured data to free-form agents Liu frames Airtable and Superagent as complementary form factors that together address different enterprise needs. Airtable provides the structured foundation, and the superagent handles unstructured research tasks. "We obviously started with a data layer. It's in the name Airtable: It's a table of data," Liu said. The platform evolved as scaffolding around that core database with workflow capabilities, automations, and interfaces that scale to thousands of users. "I think Superagent is a very complementary form factor, which is very unstructured," Liu said. "These agents are, by nature, very free form." The decision to build free-form capabilities reflects industry learnings about using increasingly capable models. Liu said that as the models have gotten smarter, the best way to use them is to have fewer restrictions on how they run. How Superagent's multi-agent system works When a user submits a query, the orchestrator creates a visible plan that breaks complex research into parallel workstreams. So, for example if you're researching a company for investment, it'll break that up into different parts of that task, like research the team, research the funding history, research the competitive landscape. Each workstream gets delegated to a specialized agent that executes independently. These agents work in parallel, their work coordinated by the system, each contributing its piece to the whole. While Airtable describes Superagent as a multi-agent system, it relies on a central orchestrator that plans, dispatches, and monitors subtasks — a more controlled model than fully autonomous agents. Airtable's orchestrator maintains full visibility over the entire execution journey: the initial plan, execution steps and sub-agent results. This creates what Liu calls "a coherent journey" where the orchestrator made all decisions along the way. The sub-agent approach aggregates cleaned results without polluting the main orchestrator's context. Superagent uses multiple frontier models for different sub-tasks, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. This solves two problems: It manages context windows by aggregating cleaned results without pollution, and it enables adaptation during execution. "Maybe it tried doing a research task in a certain way that didn't work out, couldn't find the right information, and then it decided to try something else," Liu said. "It knows that it tried the first thing and it didn't work. So it won't make the same mistake again." Why data semantics determine agent performance From a builder perspective, Liu argues that agent performance depends more on data structure quality than model selection or prompt engineering. He based this on Airtable's experience building an internal data analysis tool to figure out what works. The internal tool experiment revealed that data preparation consumed more effort than agent configuration. "We found that the hardest part to get right was not actually the agent harness, but most of the special sauce had more to do with massaging the data semantics," Liu said. "Agents really benefit from good data semantics." The data preparation work focused on three areas: restructuring data so agents could find the right tables and fields, clarifying what those fields represent, and ensuring agents could use them reliably in queries and analysis. What enterprises need to know For organizations evaluating multi-agent systems or building custom implementations, Liu's experience points to several technical priorities. Data architecture precedes agent deployment . The internal experiment demonstrated that enterprises should expect data preparation to consume more resources than agent configuration. Organizations with unstructured data or poor schema documentation will struggle with agent reliability and accuracy regardless of model sophistication. Context management is critical. Simply stitching different LLMs together to create an agentic workflow isn't enough. There needs to be a proper context orchestrator that can maintain state and information with a view of the whole workflow. Relational databases matter. Relational database architecture provides cleaner semantics for agent navigation than document stores or unstructured repositories. Organizations standardizing on NoSQL for performance reasons should consider maintaining relational views or schemas for agent consumption. Orchestration requires planning capabilities. Just like a relational database has a query planner to optimize results, agentic workflows need an orchestration layer that plans and manages outcomes. "So the punchline and the short version is that a lot of it comes down to having a really good planning and execution orchestration layer for the agent, and being able to fully leverage the models for what they're good at," Liu said.
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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter : Spotify paid out $11B+ to the music industry in 2025, up 10% YoY, bringing its all-time payments to $70B, and now accounts for ~30% of recorded music revenue — Spotify head of music Charlie Hellman called payouts “the largest annual payment to music from any retailer in history.”
Two weeks ago, Apple announced its brand new Apple Creator Studio bundle, offering its suite of creative apps for a single subscription. Apple Creator Studio is set to launch today , and the first reviews and impressions have hit the web. Head below for a full roundup. Apple has also published a new press release highlighting how creators are using the new Final Cut Pro features. more…
There’s nothing quite like going from 1080p to 4K, so if you haven’t upgraded your PC monitor yet, you might want to think about it—and think about it quick because here’s a monitor deal you won’t want to pass up. Samsung’s 32-inch ViewFinity S70D is 30% off on Amazon , bringing its price down to just $299.99. That’s its lowest ever sale price, so there’s never been a better time to snag this display! View this Amazon deal This Samsung monitor has a gorgeous 32-inch IPS panel with a crisp resolution of 3840×2160 (4K)—that’s a more-than-decent pixel density of 137 PPI, which means everything from Excel sheets to Netflix will look clear and clean. If you spend long hours at your desk, you’ll love just how much more clarity you’ll have, and that’s not to mention the brilliant visuals thanks to HDR10 on that color-accurate IPS panel. With a refresh rate of 60Hz, it’s not the best for serious or even hobbyist gamers. It comes with both HDMI and DisplayPort inputs, which allows you to connect to various devices easily. The Easy Setup Stand provides ample customizations (height adjustment, tilt, swivel, and pan), plus it has a 3.5mm audio jack if you don’t want to bother looking for that port on your desktop PC. It’s basic but still worth it at this price. Save $130 with this awesome 30% off deal that knocks this monitor down to its best-ever price and snag it for $299.99 while you can . Amazon has this listed as a “limited time deal” and I believe it. If you miss out, see more options in our roundup of the best home office monitors . Get Samsung's 32-inch 4K IPS monitor at its lowest price Buy now at Amazon
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Last year fans of Ted Lasso received the good news that the show would be returning for a fourth season , despite having referred to its third season as its "final" one. Now Apple TV has shared some still images and further confirmation that production is underway. As first shared by The A.V. Club , this latest batch of still images depicts the eponymous coach back in action, this time coaching a women’s soccer team. A description of the upcoming season shared with the outlet reads, “In season four, Ted returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team. Throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learn to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.” The images also feature returning cast members such as Hannah Waddingham, who plays Greyhounds owner Rebecca Welton, and Annette Badland, who plays pub owner Mae Green. Also shown are newcomers Grant Feely as Ted's son and Tanya Reynolds as an assistant coach. Apple shared that the show is returning this summer, but no specific date has been announced. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/apple-tv-offers-first-look-at-ted-lasso-season-4-141538177.html?src=rss
Apple Creator Studio is taking on Adobe's dominant Creative Cloud by offering a selection of apps to create content, paid monthly. There are massive differences between the two subscription services, and some nuance to picking a package. Here's how they compare, and what you can do to fill the gaps. Apple Creator Studio vs Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Apple decided that it wanted to take on the ten-ton gorilla of creative apps, Adobe, on its own turf. The Apple Creator Studio is a collection of apps for editing video, creating music, producing art, and other creativity tasks, all within Apple's hardware ecosystem. At a high-level view, that's precisely what Adobe Creative Cloud Pro has provided to professionals for many years, mostly under its previous non-Pro form — a bunch of tools for subscribers to make practically any digital media they want, to a high level. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
With the PS5 holding 71.6% market share against Xbox, the company faces little competitive pressure to accelerate PS6 development.
With the PS5 holding 71.6% market share against Xbox, the company faces little competitive pressure to accelerate PS6 development.
With the PS5 holding 71.6% market share against Xbox, the company faces little competitive pressure to accelerate PS6 development.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge : Snap launches a wholly-owned subsidiary called Specs Inc. for its upcoming AR glasses, in a bid to facilitate minority investment and offer distinct branding — Specs will now be launched under... Specs. … Snap is launching a separate business for its upcoming Specs augmented reality glasses …
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