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OpenAI launches “Frontier” to operationalize enterprise AI agents

OpenAI introduced Frontier, an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries positioning OpenAI as the “control plane” for fleets of agents across a business. Early adopters/pilots cited include HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber signal that “agent management” is becoming a first-class enterprise category, not just a feature.

Anthropic draws a hard line: “Claude will remain ad-free”

Anthropic published a statement arguing ads don’t belong inside AI conversations and committed to keeping Claude ad-free explicitly tying monetization incentives to risk in assistant behavior. Notably, they also said they do want to support “agentic commerce,” but only when initiated by the user (i.e., the agent works for the user, not advertisers).

UiPath buys WorkFusion to scale “agentic” AML/KYC automation

UiPath announced it acquired WorkFusion, adding pre-built AI agents focused on financial crime compliance (AML/KYC) into UiPath’s orchestration stack. The strategic signal: “agentic automation” is moving from horizontal copilots into regulated, domain-specific workflows where governance + auditability matter as much as model quality.

Daytona raises $24M Series A to give “every agent a computer”

Daytona raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark to build programmatic, composable “sandboxes” (agent-native computers) that can be started/paused/snapshotted—designed for persistent, stateful agent work. Notably, the company claims it hit a $1M forward revenue run rate in under 3 months and lists customers spanning YC startups to Fortune 100s—suggesting real demand for agent execution infrastructure, not just chat.

ai.com announces consumer “autonomous agents,” Super Bowl launch plan

ai.com says users can generate private personal agents that execute actions across apps (organize work, send messages, build projects) and “self-improve,” with improvements shared across the network. Big strategic bet: mass-market agent distribution + network effects (shared capability upgrades) paired with a high-profile Super Bowl moment (official product launch Feb 8).

Netcore's "Agentic Predictions 2026" Report Forecasts A2A Commerce Boom

Netcore has released its "Agentic Predictions 2026" report, which outlines how autonomous AI agents will fundamentally reshape marketing, commerce, and growth accountability. The report predicts the emergence of agent-to-agent (A2A) commerce, where brand and consumer agents will negotiate pricing, promotions, and inventory in real-time. It also highlights that multi-agent systems (MAS) are significantly outperforming single-agent architectures, demonstrating a 90.2% improvement on complex tasks

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