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Tag: Autonomous AI Agents
SAP Challenges Value of ‘Best-of-Breed’ Apps in Enterprise AI
When executive Muhammad Alam stepped onto the Fountainbleau theatre stage in Las Vegas earlier this month to give his opening keynote talk at SAP Connect, I half-expected to witness a spectacle. After all, I’m at a tech conference where AI dominates the agenda, so why wouldn’t there be a flashy performance, brimming with pagentry, to […]
Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 Aims to Help Companies Escape ‘AI Pilot Purgatory’
Welcome to the era of the agentic enterprise. At this year’s Dreamforce event, Salesforce is unveiling Agentforce 360, a major upgrade to its agentic development platform. The company says it brings together humans, AI agents, apps, and data to help organizations forge stronger connections with customers, employees, and suppliers. “What we want to see is […]
Salesforce’s Benioff Pushes the Agentic Enterprise, But Questions Loom Over Agentforce’s Impact
Marc Benioff is set to detail his bold vision on how he sees AI further transforming organizations—hopefully, he won’t have to scramble to rewrite it. At this year’s Dreamforce, Salesforce’s chief executive will introduce his definition of the “agentic enterprise,” a future in which humans and AI agents form a collaborative ecosystem inside organizations. “In […]
SAP Recasts Joule as an Agentic AI Platform Driving Workflow Automation
When SAP launched Joule more than two years ago, its natural language AI copilot, the goal was like with every other bot of its type: to help people be more productive and drive better business outcomes. Integrated into the company’s broader portfolio of apps, Joule addressed basic tasks, such as answering questions, retrieving data, and […]
Slack Opens Up Conversational Data to Power Smarter AI Agents
Slack aims to help developers leverage the vast amount of conversational data stored on its platform. The goal: Build better, secure, and context-aware AI agents for the enterprise. To achieve this, the Salesforce-owned firm is launching not only a real-time search API, but also a Model Context Protocol server and other new tools. “The future […]
Can Atlassian Build the AI Browser Enterprises Actually Need?
AI agents are breaking free of the cloud and into the browser, a shift that could turn the workplace’s most familiar tool into a critical bridge between employees and bots in the era of the hybrid workforce. To stake its claim in this shift, Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company, the startup behind the AI-powered […]
Linux Foundation Takes Charge of AGNTCY to Build the Open Internet of AI Agents
Two of the most influential interoperability standards for AI agents are now under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, marking a major step towards an open, interconnected agent ecosystem. The nonprofit organization announced on Tuesday that it is now custodian of the AGNTCY project, an initiative backed by Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Gaileo, and Glean. This […]
Daily AI Users at Work Report Higher Productivity and Job Satisfaction, Says Slack
Marc Benioff’s vision of a digital labor force is no longer hypothetical—it’s starting to take shape. Days after his company, Salesforce, launched its fourth-generation agentic development platform capable of scaling AI agents across business use cases, its subsidiary Slack released its latest Workforce Index report, which shows AI gaining acceptance among workers. According to the […]
Microsoft Adds Model Tuning to M365 Copilot to Build Domain-Specific AI
Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot assistant that transforms it into a domain expert. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, the feature is called Copilot Tuning and is a low-code service allowing developers to train models on an organization’s own data without needing the assistance of data scientists. Imagine a […]
The New GitHub Copilot Agent Doesn’t Just Help You Code—it Codes for You
GitHub’s coding assistant has leveled up, shifting from an in-editor assistant to an autonomous agent capable of implementing tasks or issues. This is an escalation in the vibe coming space and takes place four years after GitHub Copilot was first introduced. Internally dubbed Project Padawan, the new GitHub Copilot coding agent brings deeper integration of […]