Agents

At WebexOne 2025, Cisco unveiled Connected Intelligence, shifting Webex from a meetings suite to an agent platform. New AI agents span meetings, devices, and contact centers with deep ties to Microsoft, Salesforce, and AWS.

Agentic commerce just got real. ChatGPT now offers Instant Checkout with Stripe’s scoped tokens and the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Here is how it works, what changes for ranking and risk, and what merchants should do next.

Google's Gemini 2.5 brings computer use to the browser, letting agents see, plan, and act on real interfaces. Learn how the loop works, what is new, and how to build safe, auditable automations that scale.

Agent Bricks debuted in Beta on June 11, 2025. A September 25 partnership with OpenAI brought frontier models into Databricks. Learn how it turns hand-tuned prompts into auto-evaluated, MLflow-traced agent pipelines you can operate at scale.

Twilio’s ConversationRelay turns a phone number into a production voice agent with interruption handling, real time analytics, and secure handoff to humans. This guide shows how to launch a safe, latency tuned agent in 90 days.

Microsoft has launched Security Store inside Security Copilot, a curated marketplace for agents that plug into Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and more. Here is what it unlocks, the risks to manage, and a 30 60 90 day rollout plan.

At INBOUND 2025, HubSpot moved past AI features and shipped working teammates. Breeze Agents, Studio, and a Marketplace turn the CRM into a governed agent platform that SMBs can deploy in weeks, not quarters.

Google's September 2025 upgrades to Vertex AI Agent Engine bring Agent2Agent interoperability, a secure code sandbox, two way streaming, and a first party Memory Bank that turns demos into operable systems.

Notion 3.0 puts AI agents inside the workspace where work lives. With real memory, inherited permissions, and traceable runs, teams can automate production tasks without leaving their system of record.

At DevDay 2025, OpenAI turned agents into a first class platform. AgentKit and ChatGPT Apps combine runtime, safety, and distribution so startups can ship permissioned workflows with computer use and connectors from day one.

GitHub’s autonomous coding agent for Copilot is now generally available, bringing draft pull requests, auditability, and enterprise guardrails to the software lifecycle. Pilot it in 30 days and measure real impact.

Agentforce 3 turns AI agents into accountable, production-grade services with a Command Center for observability, grounded citations, automatic model failover, and FedRAMP High. Here is the playbook to adopt it.

AWS AgentCore just added VPC networking, PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and tagging on September 25, 2025. These controls move agents from demos to governed production. Learn how to design for security, cost, and scale.

Perplexity Comet’s background assistant is now public, showing how the browser can host real agents that plan, act, and ask for consent before they click. Here is what changes, why it matters, and how to try it today.

On October 2, 2025, Neo4j unveiled Aura Agent in early access and a native MCP server, backed by a $100M investment. The goal is to move enterprise agents from brittle vector recall to persistent, explainable graph memory.

On September 29 to 30, 2025, OpenAI and Stripe introduced Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Learn how ACP standardizes agent to merchant transactions, what changes for Etsy and Shopify sellers, and how to adopt it in 90 days.

Boomi’s September 2025 update brings Model Context Protocol to Agentstudio, turning existing connectors into safe, schema-based tools that agents can discover, trust, and govern. See what it unlocks now and how to adopt it with confidence.

Microsoft’s Security Store pairs a no code builder with a curated marketplace so SOCs can deploy coordinated AI agents that investigate, enforce, and learn under guardrails. Here is how to evaluate, adopt, and govern the shift.