Enterprise AI

There’s a moment in every technology wave where someone takes a floating concept and packages it so cleanly that the mainstream has to pay attention. For AI agents, that moment might be right now — and it’s coming from the company that’s been quietly eating Google’s lunch. Perplexity dropped two products at its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference that could reshape how we think about computers entirely. The first is called Personal Computer. The second is Computer for Enterprise. And if even half their internal claims hold up, we’re looking at a genuine inflection point. ...

Microsoft stopped being an AI assistant company today. It became an AI agent company. On Monday, Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork — built in close collaboration with Anthropic — a tool that autonomously handles complex, multi-step tasks inside Microsoft 365. No babysitting. No back-and-forth prompting. You hand it a project brief, and it gets to work. This isn’t another product update. This is the world’s largest software company admitting that Anthropic built something so good, integration beat competition. And in doing so, Microsoft may have just fired the starting gun on the enterprise AI agent wars. ...

Forget killer robots. The real AI threat to your business is already inside your walls, working perfectly, and quietly destroying value. “Autonomous systems don’t always fail loudly. It’s often silent failure at scale.” That’s Noe Ramos, VP of AI Operations at Agiloft, in a CNBC investigation that should be mandatory reading for every CIO breathing today. The pattern is simple and terrifying: AI systems doing exactly what they were told, producing outcomes nobody intended, compounding errors for weeks before anyone notices. ...