Category: Business

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 […]

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

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 […]

Glean Bets the Enterprise AI Fight Will Be Won on Context

An AI agent that doesn’t know your company burns money trying to prove it. That’s the argument Glean is making as it pitches why context is critical to the success of any enterprise AI program. At its annual customer conference, Glean:GO, in San Francisco this past week, that was the only thing the company wanted […]

Lattice Acquires Pando in Its Latest AI-Native Bet

Lattice announced this week that it has acquired the career development startup and one-time rival Pando, making its second acquisition this year as the HR software industry consolidates talent tools around AI. Pando founder and chief executive Barbra Gago is joining Lattice as chief marketing and strategy officer. However, financial terms were not disclosed, nor […]

Travelers Trust AI. The Sites It Recommends Aren’t Ready.

When Jesse Middleton, a venture capitalist at Flybridge Capital, was looking to arrange travel from New York City to Cancun to attend a wedding, he didn’t scour Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, or even individual airline websites—at least not on his own. Rather, it was handled by an AI agent. He wrote on LinkedIn that it searched […]

Adobe’s AI Collaborators Turn Outside AI Agents Into Governed Workfront Teammates

At the Adobe Summit last April, the company announced the Workflow Optimization Agent designed to automate “intelligent, connected actions” across workflows. Four months later, the agent—since rebranded as AI Collaborator—is now generally available. Through Adobe Workfront, the company’s work management application, users can delegate work to these virtual teammates similarly to how they might with […]

Why I Built Dossier, the Job Tracker My Spreadsheet Couldn’t Be

Throughout the periods of unemployment I’ve experienced during my professional career, a spreadsheet proved to be vital in managing the job search process. Yet, although setting it up was easy and fairly low-tech, keeping it updated was manual and tedious. Updating a listing for a job I applied for required modifying numerous cells in a […]