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Agents at Work
A formal GDPR breach notification, a model containment failure, and autonomous agent coordination have converged into a documented regulatory reality. For enterprise procurement teams, the compliance calculus just changed.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The first major consumer browser to integrate the Model Context Protocol provides agents with 17 automation tools and zero MDM controls to disable them.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The new AIforce layer brings Salesforce data into Claude, Slack, and Lightning. But as agents replace human seats, the per-seat model faces its biggest test.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Three independent security audits converge on the same finding: the marketplaces where enterprises source agent capabilities are riddled with undeclared behaviors and confirmed malicious payloads.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Three companies across China, Korea, and Huawei's cloud ecosystem scaled their agent infrastructure this week, suggesting the global agent market is splitting along national lines.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
At $4B, the Chinese agent-native startup would leapfrog every domestic rival. The round, reportedly led by Tencent, doubles the price Meta paid before regulators killed the deal — and signals that platform independence carries a premium in the AI agent race.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The new firewall discovers and controls MCP server usage at the network level, joining Okta, IBM, and Broadcom as the fourth governance layer in the emerging enterprise agent stack. Currently in Public Preview.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Voice Agent API at $0.08/min, a no-code Voice Agent Builder, and an Agent Tools API launch alongside a 72-hour company-build showcase. The Haggle Bot procurement specialist reports $100K+ in savings.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The open beta at Dreamforce puts 37 prebuilt sales skills inside Claude, offering sellers an 'AI CRO' without leaving their preferred AI interface. The bet: enterprise data should flow to the intelligence, not the other way around.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The personal AI assistant's valuation has jumped fourfold in three weeks, mirroring a pattern across Cognition and Clay. The question is whether the capital logic can outrun the compute costs indefinitely.
◆ Dana Ellison
