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Tag: Autonomous AI Agents
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 […]
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 […]
Web IQ Is Microsoft Rebuilding Search Around the Machines
Search engines learned what a good result looked like by observing how people behaved. A click followed by a long page stay signaled satisfaction, while a quick bounce back to the search results signaled a miss. Microsoft built its Bing search engine on those patterns. But in the AI era, there’s a type of user […]
ServiceNow and Nvidia Want to Make Desktop AI Agents Safe Enough for the Enterprise
For years, enterprises have struggled to govern AI where it actually runs, across clouds, tools, and now, increasingly, the desktops where employees do their work. ServiceNow thinks it has an answer, and it’s building the solution with Nvidia. Project Arc is the result: an enterprise desktop agent designed to bring autonomous capabilities seen in tools […]
Glean Wants Enterprises to Treat AI Agents Like Software—With a Full Development Lifecycle to Match
Enterprises have spent the past year building AI agents. Now they have to figure out what to do with them. To help, Glean has released its Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC), a framework that gives Chief Information Officers and IT leaders a repeatable path to scale agents across their organizations. “Agents are software. They need […]
Twilio’s Ola Is the Communication Layer That Tells AI Agents No
As the AI industry builds agents with greater capabilities and freedom to do what they want, Twilio is choosing to build the layer that decides whether they should. On Thursday, the communications infrastructure platform unveiled Ola, a tool that lets people approve or block actions taken by their AI agents on their behalf. Created by […]
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 […]
Adobe’s Productivity Agent Is Changing What a PDF Can Be
Adobe invented the PDF. For decades, it’s defined how the world shares its most important information. Now, the company wants to redefine what happens once that document lands on the other end. On Wednesday, it’s launching an AI-powered productivity agent and new publishing capabilities in PDF Spaces that turn static files into interactive experiences. “We’re […]
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 […]
ServiceNow to Enterprises: Stop Asking AI for Advice. Start Letting It Work.
The average sales rep spends just 10 hours a week actually talking to customers, according to Ipsos research. Security teams watch vulnerability backlogs grow faster than they can triage them. HR desks generate more than 40 million cases a year—most of it routine, repeatable, and stubbornly manual. The problem isn’t talent. It’s that the work […]