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Tag: AI Infrastructure
Zscaler Takes Zero Trust Beyond Human Users to Govern the Rise of AI Agents
As new AI agents accelerate their entry into the workplace, cybersecurity platform Zscaler is extending its Zero Trust Exchange to govern how these autonomous systems connect, access data, and operate across enterprise networks. On Tuesday, the company unveiled three new capabilities—AI Broker, AI Access Graph, and Endpoint AI Security—that together constitute what Zscaler calls the […]
Asana Launches Agentic Work Management Platform, Pitching Itself as the ‘Easy Button’ for AI-Driven Enterprises
Asana has spent over 18 years telling companies how to manage work. Now, it wants to tell them how to manage AI. On Thursday, the company unveiled its Agentic Work Management Platform, a system designed to align humans and agents around the same plan, context, and governance. Asana calls it the “most significant product evolution” […]
CoreWeave Wants Enterprises to Ship Agents First and Fix Them Later
Building reliable AI agents has traditionally meant doing most of the hard work before anyone uses them. Developers run lengthy offline evaluations against labeled datasets, measure performance across quality, accuracy, cost, and style benchmarks, make improvements, and repeat the cycle until the numbers look acceptable. Only then does the agent get deployed to users. CoreWeave […]
8 in 10 Workers Are Still Doing AI’s Job for It
IN THIS ISSUE: New Workday research reveals that most employees are still spending their days manually bridging broken systems, even as AI adoption spreads. Then, a new Gallup survey finds most Americans don’t want AI data centers in their backyards, putting a number on the public resistance threatening the industry’s $700 billion infrastructure push. The […]
AWS Gives AI Agents the Authority to Spend With AgentCore Payments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building the infrastructure that lets AI agents transact on behalf of humans—with their consent, of course. At its Financial Services Symposium on Thursday, the company unveiled AgentCore Payments, a set of features within Amazon Bedrock that lets AI agents access and pay for the resources they use. Built with Coinbase […]
Twilio Takes On ‘Agent Amnesia’ So Customers Never Have to Repeat Themselves Again
How many times have you called customer service, explained your problem, got transferred, and had to start all over again? With AI agents in the mix, that experience doesn’t get better—it multiplies. Twilio calls it the “conversation gap”: the disconnect between fragmented systems that leaves AI agents without the context they need to pick up […]
ServiceNow Expands AI Control Tower With Enforcement Capabilities Across the Enterprise
Once meant to serve as a traffic manager for AI agents, ServiceNow’s AI Control Tower is evolving into what the company calls an end-to-end AI command center. A year after its launch, ServiceNow is making the case that dismissing it as an add-on is a mistake—it’s now become critical to how enterprises manage AI at […]
Why Unstructured Data Is the Hidden Brake on Enterprise AI
IN THIS ISSUE: Only 27 percent of business leaders say their data, processes, and applications are well-connected enough to support AI—even as 94 percent agree that connected data is essential to making it work. This week’s column examines why unstructured content has become the biggest obstacle to the agentic enterprise, and why solving it is […]
Slack’s GM Predicts Agents Will Soon Outnumber Humans on the Platform
Slack is about to become a place where most of its users don’t need it — at least not in any human sense. The platform has long been where work happens. That’s been the pitch since day one. But spend time with General Manager Rob Seaman and you start to wonder whether the work happening […]
Visa Wants to Be the Payment Rail for the Agentic Economy
Visa is looking to position itself as the payments backbone for agentic commerce. On Wednesday, the global payments network debuted Intelligent Commerce Connect (ICC), a platform designed to help AI agents discover merchants and complete purchases on behalf of users. Notably, despite it coming from Visa, it works across any card network or credential infrastructure […]