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Microsoft Puts AI Agents to Work in Cyber Defense
Project Perception coordinates red, blue and green AI agents to identify, assess and remediate vulnerabilities while keeping human operators in control.
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Topic: Enterprise Software
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OpenAI Is Retiring Atlas. The Browser May Not Be the Point Anymore.
Atlas shuts down Aug. 9 as OpenAI moves browser-based agentic work into ChatGPT and Codex. Google is embedding Gemini into Chrome while Perplexity keeps Comet as a browser. The emerging contest is less about browser chrome than who controls the agent that can act across the web.
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The ‘SaaSpocalypse’ Is Really an Operating Model Problem
AI is not simply replacing software features. It is changing the unit of value from access to execution, forcing software companies to rethink architecture, pricing and what their products are actually responsible for.
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AI Capability Is Moving Faster Than Accountability
Advanced models are gaining the ability to navigate systems, execute actions and circumvent safeguards. The institutions responsible for deciding how much risk is acceptable are still trying to determine what should be tested, by whom and what happens after a model leaves their control.
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When AI Goes Rogue, Who Pays?
Autonomous AI agents are gaining permission to act across company systems. As that authority expands, liability is becoming a practical issue in contracts, cybersecurity, insurance and product design.
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Figma’s AI Growth Comes With Rising Costs
Revenue rose 48% and AI use spread across large customers, while research and development expense more than doubled from a year earlier.
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Thomson Reuters Raises Forecast as Professional AI Gains Traction
Revenue rose 9% as the company lifted its full-year outlook and pointed to AI products serving legal, corporate, tax and accounting customers.
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Microsoft and Mistral Expand Partnership Around Sovereign AI
The multibillion-dollar agreement will add European computing capacity and allow Mistral models to run across cloud, customer-controlled and disconnected environments.
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AI Agents Are Becoming an Operating Layer
Why the value of enterprise agents will depend less on autonomy and more on how deliberately the work is designed
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Google Recasts Vertex AI as a Platform for Governed Enterprise Agents
Google Cloud is consolidating its enterprise AI development tools around agents that can run longer, use multiple systems and remain visible to IT.