AI Agents
This was the week the agent market stopped pitching and started buying. Salesforce wrote a $3.6 billion check for a customer-service agent, Microsoft quietly flipped its Office agents from "suggest" to "do," and a Chinese lab open-sourced a frontier model just to make the whole
AI Agents
Apple finally picked a side, Salesforce's agents started out-working its humans, and the payment networks quietly built the plumbing that lets agents spend money on their own. Week 24 was the week agents stopped being a feature and started being infrastructure. Eight stories, with our takes. 1. Apple
AI Agents
Build week delivered. Microsoft spent two days rebuilding Windows around agents, Meta handed a business agent to a million SMBs, Anthropic quietly became the most valuable AI company on the planet, and OpenAI started selling its agents through Amazon's shelf. Here is what mattered in agent land this
AI Agents
Two weeks of AI-agent news compressed into one Friday read. The headline of Week 22 is not a launch, it is a valuation: Anthropic is closing a round that would make it more valuable than OpenAI. Underneath that, Google shipped a real personal agent, Gartner finally said the quiet part
AI Agents
Big week. The talent layer of the AI industry just reshuffled in public, Google bet its next wave on agents instead of chatbots at I/O, AWS quietly wired stablecoin payment rails into Bedrock, and Sinch published a survey that should make every enterprise running an agent in production reread
AI Agents
Week 20 was the week the agent story got serious on three fronts at once: Anthropic shipped agents straight at small businesses, the security industry started shouting that most enterprises think their agents are already accessing data they shouldn't be, and the EU put "agentic AI"
AI Agents
Week 18 was the week the agentic AI market stopped being a press cycle and started being a capital allocation question. Google bet $40B on Anthropic, OpenAI shipped a model designed for multi-step autonomy, and three different verticals — sales, legal, and home services — saw nine-figure rounds flow into agents that
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April was the month "agents" stopped being a press-release category and became a P&L category. Twelve months ago, "agentic AI" mostly showed up in keynote slides and Andreessen Horowitz portfolio decks. Six months ago, it started making it into Fortune 500 strategy memos. This
AI Agents
Week 17 was the week the hyperscalers stopped pretending agents were a feature and started treating them as the entire product line. Google reframed its whole enterprise AI stack around agents. OpenAI launched persistent workers inside ChatGPT. Meta cut 8,000 jobs and pointed at AI. And somewhere in the
AI Agents
This was the week AI agents stopped being software and started becoming economic actors, payroll administrators, and web citizens. The sheer range of what shipped in seven days tells you where 2026 is headed: not more chatbots, but more infrastructure for agents that actually do things in the real world.
AI Agents
Somewhere between Q3 2025 and right now, enterprises collectively decided that AI agents were the answer to everything. The problem is, they deployed them the same way they deploy everything else: one agent per problem, no coordination, no governance, no plan for what happens when you have forty of them
AI Agents
ServiceNow just did something that most enterprise software companies have been afraid to do for the past two years. On April 9, the company announced that every single product in its portfolio is now AI-native — not AI-enabled, not AI-enhanced, not AI-optional. AI is baked into the core of every product,