Category: Artificial Intelligence

Okta Launches Blueprint Alliance to Set Standards for Securing Enterprise AI Agents

Unsanctioned agents. Borrowed credentials. Agents exceeding orders. These are the things that keep enterprise security teams up at night. Software vendors have shipped tools to rein them in, but Okta argues those efforts are piecemeal. It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. That’s why on Wednesday at its annual Oktane conference, the […]

Handshake’s AI Skills Studio Turns Free AI Training Into Hiring Evidence

In June, Handshake, the self-described “career network for the AI economy,” acquired the AI-native learning platform Uplimit. Handshake said it was the first step in building a skills studio that connects skill development to career opportunities. Today, that learning hub is now open and free for any job seeker looking to reskill or upskill to […]

AWS Launches Strands Harness, an Agent That Brings Its Own Everything but the Model

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new tool for developers. On Monday, the company released its Strands harness, a ready-to-run agent that can search the web, run commands, edit files, remember what it did yesterday, and hand off work to helper agents. The only thing that’s missing is the intelligence to direct it. That’s the […]

HubSpot Puts Breeze Assistant in Charge of Its AI Agents

HubSpot knows workers use multiple AI agents, but they don’t have time to manage them or even figure out which one best suits the job. So, to make things easier, the company this week decided to put its newly upgraded Breeze Assistant in charge, empowering it to coordinate other agents on the HubSpot platform. In […]

Live Blog: Dreamforce 2026—the Agentic Enterprise Gets Real

AWS Makes Quick’s Desktop App Generally Available

Amazon Web Services has released a new way for enterprise customers to use its Quick AI assistant. On Thursday, the company announced that a desktop version is now generally available, offering another way to use it beyond the browser. This app also gives the AI more context by pulling in work-related information stored on the […]

Salesforce Unveils ‘Trusted Enterprise AI Harness’ to Give AI Agents Business Context

Salesforce built its business on human users, but over the past couple of years, it’s been building for the digital ones. Since launching Agentforce in 2024, the company has invested in helping customers become what it calls “agentic enterprises”—firms where autonomous agents work alongside human employees. On Thursday, Salesforce introduced the latest step in its […]

Botsitting, Botshitting, and the Hours AI Never Gave Back

We’re being bombarded by tech companies hyping the transformation of the workforce, which they contend no longer consists solely of human-to-human collaboration but also of human-to-AI agent collaboration. It’s the era of the agentic enterprise or the proliferation of Frontier Firms—whichever marketing label you prefer. Yet, despite all the pronouncements that AI agents will accelerate […]

AWS Scales Its Free Student Coding Program 12x, From 11 Universities to 132

Amazon Web Services is expanding its free student coding program twelvefold. On Tuesday, the company opened Kiro for Students to 121 more universities across 18 countries. It’s a jump from the 11 campuses it started with in the U.S. and Canada. Students at all 132 schools need only a university email and a one-minute SheerID […]

Adobe Brings Photoshop, Firefly, Express, and Other Pro Tools Into Slack

Adobe is continuing its effort to bring Creative Cloud to where its users are. The company announced on Wednesday that it has brought more than 70 pro-grade tools from its creative and productivity suites, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and more, into Slack. When users install Adobe for Slack, they […]