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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
Agents at Work
The startup reports 50+ enterprise customers including Google and Microsoft, with revenue bookings surpassing $150M. But the metrics are entirely company-sourced, and the 'replace SaaS' claim remains Chatterjee's positioning, not an independently validated trend.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Six of the ten largest independent mortgage banks now use Sela's voice agents in production. The company crossed $10M ARR in 18 months – and the metrics are entirely self-reported.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Five products in five weeks are building identity infrastructure for AI agents. Each solves a real problem. None solves the same problem. The measurement standard underneath is still missing.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
An HR-and-payroll company, not a tech firm, is now selling the agent platform that runs every one of its operations teams. The revenue-per-employee shift is real enough to benchmark — if the self-reported numbers hold.
◆ Dana Ellison
