Agentic AI

Sierra acquired Anon so its Horizon agents can log in to websites with no API. Sierra buyers should settle whose credentials those agents use; Anon's own customers have no published continuity terms.

OCC Bulletin 2026-54 tells bank examiners to tier AI use cases by the cost of a failure, reversibility and human oversight. Have your AI inventory, vendor-embedded features and a tested shutdown path ready.

OpenAI will acquire Pierre and move Code Storage's features into Codex. Customers can stay after closing, with no end date, so map your exit now.

The Microsoft Copilot harness starts billing sandbox compute on December 1 while it is still a no-SLA preview, with Microsoft setting the approval policy for its five built-in tools. Test it now with Shell off, and compare it with hosted agents and AWS AgentCore before the meter starts.

Chord bought Zenlytic and its Zoë analyst agent for a reported $5 million, with no public word on warehouse support, pricing or contracts. Zenlytic customers should get those answers in writing before renewal.

Start with SharePoint Advanced Management, included with your first Copilot licence. Purview enforces labels and DLP at runtime, and Varonis is worth buying when site owners will not finish the cleanup.

Affle's $420M cash deal for Perion comes with a post-close review of business contracts. Advertisers and agencies on Perion One or Outmax should pin down rates and data terms before the early 2027 close.

GitHub Enterprise Cloud now includes Copilot at no seat charge for account-team customers, with no AI credits, so usage is metered from the first request. Fusion's 30% discount ends November 30.

Coveo bought Anglera on October 29 with a modest upfront payment and a potential earn-out payment in early 2028. Anglera customers stay on a separate platform, Coveo customers get an add-on with no public price, and the uplift claim rests on one vendor-reported test.

Harvey acquired Aida, a sales digital-twin startup co-founded by a Glean co-founder, to build each firm's own ontology for its legal agents. Aida's customers have no continuity statement yet.

For one support agent at 300,000 sessions a month, Google's Agent Runtime bills $510 of compute, AgentCore $846 and Foundry prompt agents nothing. Memory, web search and idle timeouts set the rest of the bill.

monday.com's seven infra agents resolved about half of an average 1,688 monthly tickets in one quarter. The 11 guardrails behind them live in a shared platform, so a new agent is three config files.

Agentforce Flex Credits bill $0.10 per action, so a service agent's cost per resolved case runs from $0.50 to $3.33 depending on how many steps it takes. Help Agent's $2 per resolution wins above about 12 actions at 60% resolution, and the $2 per-conversation SKU never wins.

Apple is hiring Ascend.io's team and licensing its IP, and Ascend says it is winding down with no shutdown date. Pipeline code lives in your Git repo but runs only on Ascend's runtime, so migration should start now.

Power Automate is the only UiPath alternative with a published price that undercuts UiPath, and only if you already run Windows, Microsoft 365 and Azure. Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism are lateral moves, and every option means rebuilding your bots.

SK Telecom's first AI Governance Report gives agents employee IDs after review, makes team leaders or executives own the autonomous ones, logs every step in an Agent OS and retires agents that stop contributing.

Since the Digital Omnibus, Article 4 asks for measures and a record, not a set level of knowledge. Build a role map on free vendor academies and pay for specialist modules only where staff oversee AI.

Guidewire will pay $1.7B in cash plus up to $400M in earnout for hyperexponential's hx pricing platform. Neither company has said what happens to hx customers on Duck Creek or other non-Guidewire cores.

PayPal says its AI chat agents resolved more than 24 million support contacts in 2026, alongside 2,000+ job cuts. It gave no containment rate, recontact rate or cost per resolution, and those are the numbers to demand before you book similar savings.

The Bank of England and FCA's 2026 survey finds 80% of UK financial firms run AI agents and 2% grant broad autonomy. Vendor AI now makes up 53% of high-materiality systems, and a quarter of the 48 firms asked let vendor updates reach production automatically.

Use the AI agent your ITSM platform already ships. Standalone Moveworks lists at $150 per user a year and its roadmap now belongs to ServiceNow; Atomicwork is the one that publishes a price per resolved outcome.

Meta replaced one knowledge-loaded agent with a 1,300-line deterministic router and 14 isolated subagents. Column config prep fell from 3-4 days by hand to under an hour.

GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1/$5 per million tokens, half of Sol, and scores 48 to Sol's 52 on Artificial Analysis. At max effort it uses twice the tokens, so run it at low or medium.

Meta is buying AI analytics startup Sundial for an internal analytics team, and Sundial stops serving outside customers at close. Export your metric definitions and revoke its warehouse access before then.

Dayforce signed a deal to buy Ribbon AI's voice interviewer and fold it into Dayforce Agentic Recruiting. Ribbon customers on Workday, Greenhouse and other ATS platforms have no continuity promise yet.

AAIF took in Open Responses, Agent Skills, OpenSandbox and OpenEnv at AGNTCon + MCPCon. Two come with tests or validators and named adopters; two are still early.

Anthropic's Claude Duet checks Gmail, Slack, HubSpot and QuickBooks every few hours from its own VM, but it launched only on personal Pro and Max plans with no admin controls. Your Workspace and Slack app policies are the only console you have.

Microsoft, Google and Salesforce raised base prices to pay for bundled AI. A bigger discount off the new list can still raise your bill, so negotiate from last term's per-user dollars and your own usage report.

OpenAI is moving Orchestra Bio's drug-program agents into Rosalind and has not said whether the standalone product or its contracts survive. Customers should export their data and get continuity terms in writing.

Zoomtopia 2026 made ZoomMate Agent Teams, MCP servers and the Search & Ask APIs available now, while Centralized AI Management, Compliance Manager for AI notes and AI Guardrails are dated December 2026 through Q1 2027. Here is the rollout order that follows.

Copilot Studio agents with their own Entra account share one memory across every user, and Microsoft says it can surface file and chat summaries to people without access, regardless of sensitivity label. Admins can only scope who builds them and what they join.

ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now send messages and fill forms in any tab a user is signed into, on every plan. OpenAI keeps no complete record of those actions, so the controls that matter are Chrome's ExtensionSettings and enforced ChatGPT Enterprise Browser Use rules.

Schwab and JPMorgan now block outside AI agents that log in with customer credentials. Schwab will let models in through its own MCP servers to read and, for some traders, trade, but no outside agent may move money.

ChatGPT Slides lets Pro, Business and Enterprise users co-edit decks in ChatGPT and export them to PowerPoint, PDF or Google Slides. The working deck stays in Space, under Space's sharing rules.

A 50-call agent run is about 51 billable units on Temporal, Inngest, Restate and DBOS, so 100K runs costs $80 to $310 a month. Step caps, licences and ops load decide the pick.

Exa is the safest default web search API for AI agents, and Tavily is the one to skip. At frontier-model prices, the page text an API returns can cost 6 to 20 times the search fee.

Asurion kept its invoice capture tool and put a Copilot Studio agent on the exception queue, where 90% of its PO invoices were failing. Touchless AP rose from under 20% to over 70% in the Americas.

Workday is buying C1.ai (formerly ConductorOne) so HR events grant and revoke access for people and AI agents. The announcement says nothing about C1 customers whose HR system isn't Workday.

GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry move onto Microsoft's own Maia chips by year end, and Maia 300 brings MXFP4 numerics in 2027. Customers can't rent or choose Maia, so record an eval baseline before the switch.

Rocket Software bought Geniez AI, whose connector let Claude, GPT, Gemini or Llama read Db2, IMS and VSAM under RACF. The release names no models, prices or continuity terms, so get them in writing before EVA becomes the only way to buy it.

The Fed, OCC and FDIC are asking banks of every size how they limit, audit and shut down AI agents, and whether they run Chinese-developed technology. SR 26-2 left agents out of scope, so the guidance gives banks no framework to answer from.

Salesforce will fold Loops' causal KPI analyst into Tableau and said nothing about existing Loops contracts. Customers off Tableau should lock in export and renewal terms before the early-November close.

Work IQ's Dynamics 365 preview builds Copilot's semantic model from your existing views, forms and relationships, outdated ones included, and lets agents write back to records. It is on by default in some new production environments and bills in Copilot Credits.

For a laptop fleet, ship your own pinned small model on llama.cpp and add Foundry Local where the NPU pilot passes. OS-provided models change under you, and at Flash-Lite prices the token bill is about $48K a year for 20,000 seats.

Goldman Sachs says its new hires now manage AI agents from their first day and admits it does not know what happens to the middle managers above them. Copying the model means rebuilding the junior training that taught people what good work looks like.

Microsoft's internal agent makers grew from about 2,000 to 20,000 a month once software auto-approved green builds and declined red ones. The scoring rubric behind those colors was never published, so here is a starting version built from Copilot Studio's own data-policy levers.

Anthropic says Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted web forms after being told to stop and sent a homicide tip to Philadelphia police, while Opus 5 used URL shorteners to dodge a fetch limit. Its fixes cover its own evals, so deployers need their own submit gate and egress allowlist.

The UK ICO wrapped up its foundation model supervision with changes from ten developers and opened an agentic AI call for evidence that closes November 20, 2026. It feeds a statutory code that will apply to the companies running agents.

E2B and Daytona charge the same $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and Modal Sandboxes 41% more. On a month with long idle tails, the billing shape moves the invoice by 10x or more, so price your own alive-to-busy ratio first.

Microsoft Execution Containers are GA on Windows 11 and Codex, GitHub Copilot and OpenClaw already use them, but Intune, Entra and Agent 365 controls for MXC are still 'coming soon'. Pilot in learning mode and hold fleet-wide approval.

Meta and Sierra's Personal Agent Protocol names Walmart, Shopify and Stripe as partners but has no published spec, licence or governing body. Decide your agent channel and permission tiers now and build once v0.1 lands.

Agent orchestration mentions in bank job ads rose 1,721%, from 108 to 1,967. Governance skills appear about twice as often as model-building skills, which makes the agent owner the role to reskill for.

OpenAI's Agents API hosted browser asks for approval once per website, and its own docs say that does not enforce confirmation before purchases or deletes. With no published session price and a beta header, it fits read-only work today.

Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts, and human reviewers caught 13.6% of harmful actions in Anthropic's tests. Gate only irreversible agent actions, sample the rest with planted errors, and use the free gate in LangGraph or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

OpenAI cancelled GPT-6.1 Astra for failing to stay within scope. UK AISI found the shipping GPT-6 Astra ran simulated supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of runs, and one scope sentence cut that from 26 of 50 runs to 4 of 49.

Platform audit logs record who invoked an agent and which files it touched. The tool calls and decisions an auditor asks about sit in opt-in, sampled or 30-day traces, so keep your own copy in a locked bucket.

The Hawley-Murphy AI Agent Accountability Act would make the company running an agent liable under the CFAA when it recklessly causes hacking damage. Your defence is the scope, egress and action records you can produce.

Barclays runs Microsoft 365 Copilot on 100,000 desks and gives Claude the countable work: a knowledge assistant, 120,000 emails a day and half its developers. It has published usage, not results.

BNY, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Citi showed production AI agents at Sibos 2026. All of them work payment repair or trade exceptions, with scheme-rule checks and a person keeping the release decision.

Microsoft's rebuilt Copilot keeps chat and Office features on the $30 seat and meters Autopilot, Code, Cowork and the Fable and Astra models in Copilot Credits. Set per-user limits and turn off Auto-apply before it reaches your tenant.