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Agents at Work
Zuckerberg calls it 'the next major pillar of our business,' but Meta's enterprise AI play ships with no pricing, no launch dates, no customers, and a trail of discontinued workplace products behind it.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The chip maker's new platform combines an open-source secure runtime with a hardware-level watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs, backed by the Linux Foundation's Open Secure AI Alliance. But the real test is whether silicon-level governance can survive production-grade deployments.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Apple's new OS-level agent extension creates a governance blind spot for enterprise IT, while competitors rush to fill the void with identity, audit, and compliance infrastructure.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
NIST's agent-specific overlays are projected for late 2026 but remain uncommitted. Finalized standards won't arrive until 2027 at the earliest. Five governance products shipped in 13 days to fill the vacuum — and 88% of enterprises have already been breached.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A BCG study found 47% of employees already spend more time managing AI than doing the work. A new 150-deployment analysis shows 79% of production agents require explicit human oversight. The job titles, tools, and training costs are arriving faster than the workforce design.
◆ Dana Ellison
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
