Ecolab and Honeywell Executives Say AI Can Cost More Than Humans in the Physical World
At a Fortune summit, technology leaders from both companies described accuracy gaps, token costs and why they keep a human in the lead.
Scaled Cognition Launches Voice, a Text-to-Speech Model Priced at $9 per Million Characters
The customer-service AI lab says its model reads account numbers and addresses more accurately and costs less than competing services. The claims are the company’s own.
Workday Wants AI Agents Funded From Labor and Outsourcing Budgets, Not Only IT Spending
At its annual conference, the company said it will price agents by usage and that automation could let it grow with fewer new hires.
Zoom Introduces a Unified Context Layer to Give AI Agents Shared Memory Across Business Apps
At Zoomtopia, the company said its context layer links meeting and call data with Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday so agents can act with more background.
SAP Makes Autonomous Enterprise Generally Available and Turns Joule Into a Full-Screen Work Layer
At SAP Connect 2026, the company moved from promising agentic autonomy to a defined way for users to work with agents outside its applications.
ServiceNow Introduces AI Passport to Define What Each AI Agent Is Allowed to Do
The credential records an agent’s identity, permitted actions, reachable systems and accountable owner, and is checked while the agent runs.
Infor Heads Into Velocity Week With 100-Plus Industry AI Agents and a Survey Showing 49% Still Early in Deployment
SiliconANGLE previews Infor’s push to embed agents and process intelligence into its industry applications, alongside its own adoption data.
Oracle’s Fusion Claw Promises Governed AI Agents, but Gartner Says It Is Still in Early Piloting
The Register reports on Oracle’s new runtime for business agents, what analysts like about it and where they see lock-in risk.
Grafana Labs Adds Agents That Watch Other AI Agents at ObservabilityCON 2026
The observability company unveiled Assistant Watchers, remediation agents and a preview of managed sandboxes as part of what it calls agentic operations.
Motive Launches Agents That Contact Drivers and Create Work Orders Before Problems Escalate
The fleet and physical operations platform says its new agents go beyond alerts to take action, and that they are available to customers now.