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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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ServiceNow Otto Is the Front Door to an AI Platform Built to Finish the Work

Enterprises have spent the past few years deploying AI across their organizations, only to find it stops short of actually finishing the job. Employees still navigate between applications, chase down approvals, and route their own requests. This is because most AI tools are built inside a single application, unable to cross the boundaries of departments […]

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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 […]

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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 […]