Cuez, a cloud-based newsroom and broadcast automation platform, will showcase an open AI agent framework at NAB Show 2026 (April 18-22, Las Vegas). The framework lets broadcast production teams run AI agents inside live workflows, using their own fine-tuned language models or local models where data governance requires it, according to announcements covered by Sports Broadcast News and TV News Check.
The agent framework is one of four new product additions Cuez will demo at the show. The others: Storydesk, a story-centric newsroom system; Blockz, which embeds automation cue blocks inside MOS rundowns for legacy and next-gen systems; and Browz, a universal media browser. All four are designed to work independently or together.
Agents in the Control Room
Cuez says it has already developed AI agent assistants alongside “major international broadcasters and technology partners,” demonstrating voice-commanded rundown management, smart cueing, and real-time decision support in the control room. Those capabilities are now being integrated into the commercial platform, according to Sports Broadcast News.
Within Cuez Storydesk, AI already handles headline versioning and multichannel content adaptation. The platform uses embeddings so that “every asset, every piece of information, every textual fact, becomes accessible for AI agents to interact with,” according to the company.
“The point isn’t to hand the gallery over to a machine,” Cuez stated. “It is to give lean production teams a set of capable controllable tools that reduce cognitive load and let them focus on the show.”
Broadcast AI at Scale
Cuez is not the only vendor bringing agentic AI to NAB 2026. AWS will showcase AI and cloud media technologies at the conference, including a session on how the PGA TOUR automated live broadcast production using “events driven by the Shotlink Scoring Platform and agentic AI,” according to Broadcast Beat.
The convergence is notable. Broadcast media has traditionally been one of the most operationally rigid industries: live production runs on tight timing, manual cueing, and legacy systems that predate cloud computing. Agent frameworks entering this vertical suggest the technology is mature enough to operate in environments where latency and reliability tolerances are measured in seconds, not minutes. For agent builders looking for deployment verticals beyond software development and customer service, live broadcast production just became a viable target.