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Microsoft’s Rebuilt Copilot Is a Bet on How Companies Will Work Next 

In 1981, a multinational company that wanted to know what the next financial quarter looked like had to piece the answer together from interoffice memos and faxes, each moving from desk to desk until someone could reconcile the numbers. That labor-intensive process disappeared with the introduction of the Excel spreadsheet, which traveled as an email […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Adobe Firefly Graduates Its Audio Tools and Adds a Free Tier to Its AI Assistant

Sound is usually the last thing a creator adds to a project, and the first thing anyone watching it notices. It’s also the point where the work stops. The edit is finished, the pacing is right, and then comes the detour: out to a stock library, through a licensing page, into a subscription in search […]

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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 […]

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OpenClaw Won. Big Tech Is Now Playing Its Game.

The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function calling took them a step further, allowing models to query databases or call APIs, but […]

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Google Rebuilt Search Around AI. Don’t Throw Away Your SEO Playbook.

IN THIS ISSUE: Google didn’t just update Search at I/O this week. It rebuilt it around AI, with consequences for every marketer who has spent years optimizing for a SERP that no longer looks the same. This issue examines what the shift from SEO to Answer Engine Optimization actually means for businesses trying to stay […]

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Docusign Wants Its AI to Know Your Contracts Better Than You Do

Docusign made its intentions clear two years ago when it pivoted beyond e-signatures into the Intelligent Agreement Management space. Now, it’s ready to show what that actually looks like in an AI agent world. At its Momentum conference on Thursday, the company announced that its AI engine for agreements, Iris, is expanding into agents along […]

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OpenClaw Agents Were Built for Users. EnterpriseClaw Rebuilds Them for the Enterprise.

AI agents are getting more capable by the day, pushed forward by computer-use frameworks like OpenClaw and its variants. Enterprise adoption should be accelerating—and it would be if not for the security and governance issues: No one wants an agent wiping out an entire database in nine seconds without permission. On Tuesday, Automation Anywhere unveiled […]