Beat
Agents at Work
Cisco found 85% of organizations piloting agentic AI while only 5% have reached production. Gartner forecasts over 40% of projects will be canceled by 2027. A burst of governance tools is arriving, but enterprises still cannot reliably measure whether their agents actually work.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The largest enterprise productivity vendor is rebranding Scout to Autopilot and wrapping it in enterprise-grade governance: own Entra identity, audit logs, Purview data protection, and human-controlled autonomy. The catch? It's still in restricted preview.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Island raised $400M at a $6.4B valuation to turn the enterprise browser into the 'agentic control plane' for governing AI agent work. The architecture is fundamentally different from API-level monitoring.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The first ERP-scale vendor to ship a dedicated agent inventory product says it has already discovered 180,000 agents in production across 150-plus organizations. All the numbers are self-reported, but the distribution advantage is real.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
After a frantic wave of agent deployment, the infrastructure for managing, measuring, and decommissioning them is finally catching up. Dataiku's standalone monitoring product — first announced in March — arrives alongside a vendor-commissioned survey finding 81% of CIOs have lost oversight of their own AI agents.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Researchers demonstrated 'conversation history poisoning' across Claude Code, Codex, Kiro-CLI, and Pi. A single malicious package install can weaponize an AI coding workflow into an autonomous attacker. The cryptographic signing fix must come from providers.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The $955M acquisition of Cognigy signals that the routing layer — the last human-held chokepoint in enterprise service — is the new battleground for AI agents.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Over two weeks in September, Meta assembled a complete commerce pipeline on Muse: merchant discovery through checkout through payment. Amazon's exclusion from that stack is equally telling.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The consulting giant has invested in Within, whose platform captures how employees actually work. But 82% of companies are spending on AI while only 23% report sustained value — and that gap is where this new deployment model wants to live.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The startup reports 3,500+ customers and 327% transaction growth, but the metrics are entirely company-sourced. California's SB 122 creates a regulatory tailwind that could force adoption.
◆ Dana Ellison
