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Agent Studio, announced at Amplify September 14-16, is a no-code agent builder inside Workiva's governed platform, plus three agentic solutions aimed at the regulatory disclosures nobody built software for. Choosing the unbuilt filings over competing with Vanta and Drata in general compliance automation is the smarter move. Note what it means for a NYSE-listed reporting vendor to ship an agent builder: customers now assemble the workflow Workiva used to sell as a SKU.
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SaaStr's customer success panel put numbers on something I'd been noticing anecdotally: the CSM role grew 700% through Q2 2022, then flatlined for four years, while forward-deployed engineering is up 1,000%+ and still climbing. What makes it a story rather than a stat is the s...
MCP now has 97M+ monthly SDK downloads. First-class client support across ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and VS Code. Governed by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation, co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. AAIF also hosts Goose (op...
Robinhood unveiled Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card on May 27, letting users connect any MCP-compatible AI agent to autonomously trade stocks and make purchases with 3% cash back. Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP can now interact with financia...
Drata is adding inline sensors that inventory every agent employees create (including shadow agents), map each to owner, identity, and permissions, and block policy violations before execution, across its 8,500+ orgs. Vanta's AI Agent moved to GA in July on $300M ARR and 16,00...
Starting June 15, Anthropic is splitting every Claude subscription into two buckets: interactive chat (your current plan limits) and programmatic usage (a separate monthly credit pool metered at full API rates). Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions, and third-party agents all...
Anthropic's Marketplace (launched March 6 with Snowflake, GitLab, Harvey, Replit, Lovable) takes zero commission, profiting through increased Claude usage instead. This joins Cursor's Plugin Marketplace, Notion's Custom Agents (21K+ in beta), Superhuman's Agent Store, and Goog...
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