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Agents at Work
The CISA deadline has passed. Organizations still running IBM Langflow are now in active-exploitation territory — and the pattern of unsandboxed exec() means patching is a temporary fix against a structural problem.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Nearly 1 in 4 CHROs report entry-level hiring freezes tied to AI automation. But only 20% of organizations have seen significant value from the tools driving those cuts.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The Fortune 500 company is restructuring its entire workforce around personalized AI agents. The financial logic is aggressive — $2B to $9B in AI orders, 52% stock gains — and every other enterprise is benchmarking against it.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
AI agents are boosting less-experienced workers' productivity while firms cut the entry-level roles they'd traditionally fill. The structural hollowing is already underway — and the talent pipeline is at risk.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Cursor co-developed a working packaging format for agent skills. The IETF was still debating governance. Who controls distribution controls monetization.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The defense sector just became a customer for agentic AI, not a researcher. A $5.6B Army contract and IL5 clearance for autonomous agents mark the start of production-grade government AI.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A survey-driven data set shows 55% of leaders regret their AI redundancies and 32% have rehired for eliminated roles. The correction wave is accelerating faster than the cuts themselves.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The company cut 20% of its workforce and shifted to a hybrid model where AI credits sit alongside seat subscriptions. Other SaaS companies are watching.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The expanded Google Cloud partnership puts Gemini inside Fusion Applications and NetSuite — not as another option in the dev toolkit, but as native intelligence in the apps that run the business. The platform layer is responding to protocol maturation.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A new framework maps 165 million US jobs into six categories based on automation potential and demand expandability. The biggest risk for enterprises isn't mass layoffs — it's hollowing out the talent pipelines that develop senior workers.
◆ Dana Ellison
