Eighty-five percent of enterprises run AI agent pilots, but just 5% ship them in production, according to Cisco’s Jeetu Patel. The blocker isn’t “rogue agents” but the lack of a trust architecture that covers delegation, identity, and telemetry for action risk. Patel also outlined Cisco’s rapid security tooling and a push for AI-built products.
OpenAI has introduced Workspace Agents, a business-focused successor to custom GPTs that teams can build or select from templates and deploy across tools like Slack, Salesforce, Notion, Google Drive, and Microsoft apps. Instead of pausing when you stop chatting, these agents run on a cloud coding backbone, can schedule long workflows, and operate under granular admin permissions.
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Cognizant has joined OpenAI’s partner group as a global partner, aiming to expand the use of OpenAI’s Codex across its enterprise clients. The company says integrating Codex will accelerate software development and strengthen code quality. Cognizant engineers are already applying Codex in live client projects, and the partnership is designed to bring more advanced AI capabilities into enterprise environments.
After 18 months of “agent building,” BAND (Thenvoi AI Ltd.) targets the tougher next step: letting AI agents built on different frameworks actually collaborate. Exiting stealth with $17 million, it offers a deterministic “Slack for agents” interaction layer with multi-peer comms, identity-based permissions, and an enterprise control plane for auditability—positioned as infrastructure for a universal orchestrator.
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