Vanta Ships Its AI Agent to GA This Month Plus an Agent for Risk Targeting 'Shadow AI'

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Vanta's AI Agent moves from private beta to general availability in July, joining the Vanta Agent for Risk, which unifies internal and third-party risk into a single continuously updated view — the company frames the wedge as shadow AI, the ungoverned agent and model usage spreading through enterprises. GRC is quietly becoming one of the highest-velocity agentic categories because the work is document synthesis and evidence collection, which is exactly what agents are already good at. The counter-argument: auditors still need attestable provenance, and no vendor has shown regulators accept agent-collected evidence.