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Applications and databases sold to businesses for operations such as finance, human resources and data management.
Workday told Rising 2026 attendees its new AI agents are autopilots that work on their own, iTWire reported. Executives also insisted humans stay "in the loop", so the open question for a buyer is what that oversight covers task by task.
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Workday made its MCP server, SQL access to live data and a shared agent runtime generally available on Tuesday. Agents built in Claude Code or Cursor run under the signed-in user's permissions, the company says.
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Workday's Joel Hellermark says its agents pair reasoning models with deterministic guardrails, itwire reported. Sana, bought for US$1.1 billion, now orchestrates every Workday agent, so the model-driven half of that split runs in one acquired product.
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Workday made its Sana agent interface the default home screen for all users at its Rising event in Las Vegas. For HR and finance teams the day now starts at a prompt. Who reviews what the agents do is still unsettled.
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Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 and a third of enterprise software to ship with agentic AI by 2028. Quartz's summary says both can hold at once. We think that argues for releasing agent budgets in tranches.
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Spotify has put four tools it built for its own engineers, Backstage, Portal, Confidence and Xirp, under one brand called Spotify Technology. It calls the move doubling down, a public commitment that platform teams running these tools can now hold it to.
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Enterprise software was bought on Monday morning while the QQQ fell 2%, a four-point spread inside technology that arrives with two ServiceNow target raises already published before Dario Amodei's weekend essay.
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