Agents at Work
The Agent Production Gap: When 171% ROI Isn’t Enough to Ship
The economics of AI agents are proven. But 86% of pilots never reach production – and the failure isn't technological. It's operational.
◆ Dana Ellison
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The First Agentic Attack: How AI Is Reshaping the Economics of Cybersecurity
Palo Alto Unit 42 documented the first confirmed AI-agent-launched cyberattack, compressing weeks of intrusion into under 10 hours. The market response was immediate.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
Snowflake’s 22% Surge Signals Wall Street Is Pricing in the Agent Economy
CoCo, Snowflake's AI coding agent, hit 9,100 accounts and added 2,000 in one quarter. The consumption-based model means agent adoption directly drives revenue – and investors are buying it.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
The $100M Signal: Why AI Agent Security is Becoming Its Own Category
HiddenLayer's Series B, backed by Microsoft's M12 and Booz Allen, is the clearest sign yet that securing autonomous AI agents is no longer a niche concern – it's an operational imperative.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Broadcom Bakes Agent Governance Into the Private Cloud, Not as a Bolt-On
By bundling AgentMinder into VMware Private AI Cloud, Broadcom is betting that governing autonomous AI agents requires infrastructure-level controls, not just identity-layer solutions.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
Wonderful Hits $5B Valuation as Agentic AI Shifts Toward Embedded Engineering
The startup's massive Series C and Salesforce backing highlight a growing preference for high-touch deployment over traditional SaaS models.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
Beyond the Hype: Why the Action-to-Output Ratio Defines the New Agentic Era
Salesforce's latest index shifts the conversation from deployment counts to execution efficiency—and the 15% compound monthly growth rate in agent actions tells a sharper story than the vanity numbers.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
Optimizely Bets the DXP Is Where AI Agents Belong — Not in Standalone Tools
The marketing platform vendor launches role-based 'Virtual Teammates' with persistent identity and organizational memory, betting that embedding agents in the system of record beats the current fragmented AI tool landscape.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
The Build-vs-Buy Shift: 32% of Enterprises Bet on Agentic Coding Tools
As enterprises abandon software purchases, they face a sobering reality: internal AI projects fail twice as often as vendor-backed solutions.
◆ Dana Ellison
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Agents at Work
The Hidden Math Behind the AI Agent Cost Crisis
Enterprise leaders are finding that cheaper tokens don't mean cheaper AI. The real expense has moved from the model to the process.
◆ Dana Ellison
