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Agents at Work
Model safety gets the headlines, but the vendors winning production deployments are the ones that gate what agents do – not just what they say. A convergence of enterprise security platforms points to the execution layer as the new control surface.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Slack are converging on an identical architecture where autonomous agents work inside shared office tools. The workspace is becoming the deployment surface, but 88% of agent pilots still never reach production.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The shared workspace launches October 1 alongside always-on Dots agents at $500 per month, turning ChatGPT into a direct competitor to Microsoft and Google office suites.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
OpenClaw Enterprise is the first major open-source contender in enterprise agent governance, but it arrives in pilot phase against a backdrop of real security friction and a crowded field of proprietary alternatives.
◆ Dana Ellison
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
