Microsoft Takes Agent 365 to General Availability as Shadow AI Becomes an Enterprise Threat

Microsoft has moved its Agent 365 platform — a management layer for enterprise AI agents — from preview into general availability, citing the growing threat of ungoverned shadow AI deployments across corporate environments. The GA launch signals that governing autonomous agents has become an operational priority, not a future consideration.

Inside AMEX's Agentic Commerce Stack: Intent Contracts, Single-Use Tokens, and the Future of Enterprise Payments

American Express is building an agentic commerce layer that lets AI agents purchase on behalf of users through its ACE developer toolkit — using intent contracts to define spending scope and single-use tokens to secure individual transactions. The system currently operates within Amex's own network, though the company participates in cross-industry interoperability protocols including Google's Agent Pay Protocol.

Enterprise Storage Architects Are Betting on SSDs. They May Be Leaving a Trillion Gigabytes on the Table.

A new generation of tape storage is approaching 1,000 TB per cartridge, outpacing SSD cost-per-gigabyte for cold storage by orders of magnitude — yet most enterprise storage architects are designing around flash-first assumptions that made sense in 2020 but are increasingly expensive at scale. The case for reconsidering hierarchical storage management is quietly returning.

The RAG Era Is Ending for Agentic AI as Hybrid Retrieval Intent Triples to 33 Per Cent

Fortinet Advances Security Fabric to 8.0 with AI Governance Controls and Quantum-Ready Protection

Fortinet has announced FortiOS 8.0 at its global and Taiwan user conferences, adding AI governance controls and quantum-resistant security features to its Security Fabric platform. The upgrade addresses two of the most significant emerging vectors in enterprise security: ungoverned AI agent behaviour and the long-term threat posed by quantum computing to current encryption standards.

Nearly €80 Billion of Public Money Is Flooding Into European VCs and Startups. Is It Working?

Nearly €80 billion of public money has entered the European venture and startup ecosystem, raising fundamental questions about capital efficiency, dependency on state funding, and whether subsidised growth produces the category-defining companies that private capital alone might have built. The influx is reshaping European VC economics, with LPs increasingly expecting state co-investment as a baseline condition.

Google AICore Is Using Gigabytes of Android Storage by Design — and Enterprise IT Needs a Policy Response

Google has confirmed that AICore — the system app managing on-device AI including Gemini Nano — intentionally consumes gigabytes of device storage for model downloads and pre-processing. Enterprise mobile fleet managers whose policies assumed 2–3 GB of system overhead are finding that AI model storage can consume 8 GB or more per device without warning.

Boomi Builds Analyst Momentum Across Integration, API Management, and Data Management

Boomi has been recognised across integration, API management, and data management categories in analyst reports — a signal that the platform is consolidating its position as a mid-market integration hub at a time when enterprise teams are under pressure to connect an expanding set of AI and data tools. Coverage spans Gartner and Forrester.

Windows Has Been Logging Every App Install and Uninstall for Years — Enterprise IT Needs to Know

Windows has quietly maintained a detailed log of every application installed and uninstalled on the device — a record that reveals more about user behaviour, software licensing compliance, and potential policy violations than most IT departments realise. The logs, accessible via Event Viewer, predate most organisations' current data governance policies.

Google Play Protect Is Blocking Enterprise Apps — Here Is What IT Admins Need to Configure

Google Play Protect's increasingly aggressive app-blocking behaviour is creating friction for enterprises running sideloaded or custom-signed Android applications that fall outside its trust model. IT administrators are finding that GPP blocks legitimate enterprise apps, requiring explicit MDM overrides and user education to maintain fleet functionality.