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.
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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.
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Agents at Work
Serval Bets It Can Automate the Work IT Admins Used to Do — and ServiceNow Should Pay Attention
Catalyst, an AI agent that builds enterprise automations from ticket history, represents a shift from reactive support to proactive system-building. The question is whether a $1B startup can move fast enough to matter.
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Okta Launches Agent SSO to Standardize Digital Labor Identity
As AI agents proliferate, Okta is moving to bring them under the same governance umbrella as human employees.
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Owner Bets Goldman Sachs Can Validate the AI Agent Model for Every Local Business
A $240 million Series D at $2.3 billion signals that Wall Street sees vertical AI agents—not just software—as the operating layer small businesses have been missing.
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Google Bets Deutsche Bank Can Make AI Agents Work Inside a Global Bank’s Compliance Framework
Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services ships with a governed control plane, 50+ specialized skills, and a design-partner model that Google hopes will become the template for every regulated vertical.
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Citigroup’s Arc Platform Is the Largest Measured Enterprise Agent Deployment Yet
With 40,000 developers and 100,000+ weekly agentic hours, Citi's $5B self-funded AI transformation sets a new benchmark for governed, enterprise-scale agent deployment.
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Agents at Work
Salesforce’s Claudeforce Deal With Anthropic Signals the End of Model-Agnostic Enterprise AI
Claude becomes the default reasoning engine across Salesforce's entire ecosystem, from Agentforce to Slack, in a partnership that could reshape how enterprises choose AI vendors.
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Epic’s Agent Factory Is the Anti-Horizontal Play for Enterprise AI
By embedding agent creation into the EHR, Epic is proving that in regulated industries, the platform that owns the workflow owns the future of autonomous work.
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Rillet Raised $100M to Put AI Agents Inside the General Ledger – Not Around It
The AI-native ERP hit a $1B valuation in under two years by embedding its agent directly into the real-time general ledger. Big Four firms are already on board.
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