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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 […]

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OpenAI’s Chronicle Looks a Lot Like Microsoft’s Recall. Will It Face the Same Scrutiny?

OpenAI wants to give its Codex coding agent a better memory. On Tuesday, the company rolled out an “experiment” feature called Chronicle that runs background agents to capture your screen, extract context from those images, and build persistent memories so Codex understands what you’re working on without you having to re-explain it every session. OpenAI says […]

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Why Microsoft Is Betting on OpenClaw

IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft is making its boldest agentic bet yet, building a new team to bring the OpenClaw framework into Microsoft 365 Copilot — a move that could reshape how hundreds of millions of office workers interact with AI. But as enterprises race to deploy AI agents, a quieter crisis is building in the […]

Artificial Intelligence

ServiceNow’s Context Engine Infuses AI Agents With the Know-How to Act

An AI agent is only as good as the information it has. To ensure optimal performance, ServiceNow has developed what it calls the Context Engine, an enterprise-grade tool that pairs AI agents with an organization’s institutional knowledge, relationships, and decision history. It’s the centerpiece of a broader set of announcements the company is making on […]

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Slackbot Steps Into the AI Spotlight

For more than a decade, Slack has positioned itself as a place where work happens (remember this commercial?). It has become a central part of how teams communicate and collaborate. But one of its most overlooked features—the Slackbot—is now stepping into a much bigger role and becoming what Salesforce describes as the “ultimate teammate.” Slackbot […]

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Intercom Turns Fin Into a Developer Platform

Three years after launching its Fin customer service agent, Intercom is opening it up to third-party developers via an API. There’s a catch: It’s open to anyone spending at least $250,000 on Intercom, but the company promises usage rates that are “by far the cheapest in the industry.” Until today, Fin had been confined to […]

Artificial Intelligence

HubSpot Moves Breeze Agents to Outcome-Based Pricing

HubSpot is restructuring how it charges for its Breeze AI agents, moving to a model in which customers pay for results rather than by usage. It’s a significant bet that the company can deliver measurable value at a moment when business leaders are scrutinizing every AI line item. “Businesses are being asked to make big […]

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AWS’s Frontier Agents Are Now GA—Ready to Automate Your DevOps and Security Headaches

AWS’s “Frontier Agents,” autonomous programs capable of building, securing, and operating software, have launched—well, two of them, at least. Coming nearly five months after their introduction at last year’s re:Invent conference, developers can use the AWS DevOps and Security agents to automate their delivery pipelines and protect their apps from vulnerabilities. But, for those hoping […]