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Infra2026-06-09 · source-backed
Work IQ APIs reach GA June 16, supporting the A2A protocol, a redesigned remote MCP server, and standard REST, letting agents reason and act over M365 org data. Agent 365 becomes the unified control plane with an agent registry, a topology map, and detection of unmanaged "local" agents. Enterprise agent governance is becoming a first-class platform, not a feature. And separately, Mustafa Suleyman used Build to debut seven in-house frontier models and name a top-four-lab goal, a clear decoupling from OpenAI.
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Runlayer raised a $30M Series A co-led by Felicis and Khosla to build a control plane that brokers what enterprise agents can access across tools and data (Tech Startups). It lands the same week MCP's Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension went stable and Vercel shipped "P...
The agent business model showed up this week, and it's rent. At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow launched Action Fabric, a layer that every external AI agent must pass through to read data or run workflows inside the ServiceNow platform, metered on action-based pricing (ServiceNow N...
This is the most consequential architecture decision in enterprise software since cloud versus on-prem, and it happened quietly across three vendor announcements. PYMNTS connected the dots first. SAP blocks. Its API Policy v4/2026, published in late April, prohibits using SAP...
It's a cross-cloud control plane to discover, govern, and secure agents across Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud, with Defender context mapping that ties each agent to its device, MCP servers, identities, and reachable cloud resources. Local discovery now spans 18 agent types i...
At Vercel Ship 26 in London today, Guillermo Rauch launched what he's calling the Agent Stack: AI SDK, AI Gateway, Sandbox, Workflow SDK, and Chat SDK, plus a new Vercel Connect and a set of enterprise agent controls. Vercel is repositioning the entire platform around running...
SaaStr built a tool that grades your API on how well an AI agent can drive it, ran it across a bunch of categories, and came back with a thesis that should worry anyone selling software: buyers are starting to choose tools based on how well agents operate them, not on feature...
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