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Nutanix Enterprise AI 2.8 Adds Agent Token Quotas and MCP Access Controls

Nutanix is putting controls around what agents can reach and consume, but says secure backend infrastructure, API keys and roles remain essential.

Aug 25, 2026Infrastructure

Open release Infrastructure

AWS Publishes a Phone-Ordering AI Pattern That Connects Restaurant Data to Claude

The sample shows how a voice agent can take an order from a phone call through backend tools, but restaurants must supply and operate the systems holding their own menus, carts, orders and locations.

Aug 25, 2026Tools

Launch Tools

OpenAI’s 10-Day WebMCP Challenge Pushes Websites to Expose Tools for AI Agents

The contest is an early test of whether sites will publish agent-facing actions instead of relying only on interfaces designed for human clicks.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Google Connects Gemini Finance Agents to D&B Data, Adding 50-Plus Skills for Regulated Work

The package gives finance agents a route to current commercial data, but weak enterprise-data readiness and continuing model-risk duties limit how much automation institutions can safely delegate.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Amazon OpenSearch Puts Trace and Service-Map Widgets Into MCP Agent Chats

The new OpenSearch capability turns an agent’s observability response into both an explanation and an inspectable dashboard view, but it depends on a local server, AWS credentials, and a configured OpenSearch UI workspace.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Partnership Products

Relativity and iManage Give Gemini Legal Two Jobs: Administration and Knowledge Retrieval

The same-day integrations put Gemini Enterprise for Legal closer to sensitive systems, but one is built to operate a legal platform while the other retrieves knowledge from it under existing controls.

Aug 24, 2026Policy

Policy

Microsoft Turns AI Governance Into Runtime Controls Across Nine Domains

The design connects policy to enforcement, telemetry and audit records, but its operational path runs through Foundry and a set of Microsoft security, identity and API services.

Aug 24, 2026Infrastructure

Open release Infrastructure

AWS Backs ARD Open Spec to Federate AI-Agent Discovery Across Environments

The Apache 2.0 specification is designed to make agents, MCP servers, tools and APIs discoverable across separate catalogs without moving their governance into one central system.

Enterprise adoption Business

Aug 24, 2026Business

Goldman Deploys Claude Agents as Lloyds Targets £100M in Value From 2026 AI Plan

Financial deployments are making multi-step AI workflows more concrete, while raising the need for systems that can identify, coordinate and constrain software acting across services.

August 2026

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Aug 23, 2026Products

Perplexity’s Agent API Adds Managed Connectors for GitHub Code and PR Workflows

The preview feature moves service setup out of individual requests; paired with Sandbox, GitHub access can reach repository edits and pull requests, within the connected account’s permissions.

Enterprise adoption Products

Google Bundles Antigravity Into Gemini Enterprise, Putting Agentic Coding Under IT Controls

The change removes a separate licensing step for eligible customers, but its practical value will depend on whether shared identity, controls and context hold up across mixed developer toolchains.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer.

Benchmark Products

Oracle Wants AI Agents to Pick Trusted Reports, Not Write SQL

The design can make database answers more repeatable by fixing the query underneath them. But it leaves a consequential judgment with the model: selecting the right report and inputs.

AWS Wants One Gatekeeper Between AI Agents and Company Tools

AgentCore Gateway is designed to move agent access out of scattered local configurations and into a centrally governed endpoint. The hard part is not connecting the first tool; it is deciding when a pilot needs user-level permissions, consent, data filtering and failure controls.

Broadcom Gives Its vDefend AI Assistant Power to Push Security Rules

The new split is the important constraint: one assistant can explain firewall conditions, while the other can create and apply Distributed Firewall and IDS/IPS rules against detected attacks. The documentation leaves the approval path for those changes unclear.

Aug 21, 2026Business

Acquisition Business

Fortinet Buys Virtue AI to Put Controls Around Agent Actions

Fortinet is adding runtime monitoring, agent testing and tool-call controls to its AI-security lineup. The critical test is whether those pieces become manageable controls inside the company’s broader Security Fabric.

Aug 20, 2026Products

Anthropic Opens Claude Academy as Free Training for Its AI Products

The free catalog teaches task selection and human review alongside Claude workflows. Whether those lessons improve real deployments remains unmeasured.

Aug 20, 2026Products

Binance Lets AI Agents Trade With User-Funded Exposure

Agent OS separates the controls Binance can apply to an account from the trading decisions made inside a user-selected AI application.