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Fast, structured updates on the most important AI launches, infrastructure changes, and enterprise AI developments.
Anthropic launches Claude Agent SDK
What changed: Standardised framework for deploying production AI agents with built-in tool orchestration and safety guardrails.
Why it matters: Agent infrastructure is becoming operationally usable for enterprise teams without custom engineering.
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Snowflake Launches Agentic AI That Executes Work on Your Data
Snowflake announced Project SnowWork on 18 March 2026, a new agentic AI platform that autonomously completes multi-step business workflows from plain-language prompts. Built on a company's own governed data, it handles tasks like pulling figures, building analysis, generating deliverables, and drafting follow-up communications without human hand-holding. The platform enters research preview with a limited set of customers and no disclosed pricing.
McKinsey Now Runs 25,000 AI Agents Alongside Its Staff
McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels has confirmed the firm operates 25,000 AI agents working alongside its 40,000 human employees, growing from just 3,000 agents 18 months ago. The deployment has saved 1.5 million hours of work in a single year and prompted McKinsey to introduce an AI collaboration test as a formal stage in its graduate hiring process. The announcement signals that agentic AI has moved from competitive advantage to operational standard at the world's largest management consultancy.
GPT-5.4 Beats the Human Baseline on Real Desktop Work
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 has become the first general-purpose AI model to score above the human baseline on OSWorld-V, a benchmark that simulates real desktop productivity tasks. Released on 5 March 2026, the model introduces native computer-use capabilities, a 1-million-token context window, and autonomous multi-step workflow execution across software environments. It is available through ChatGPT, the API, and Codex, with enterprise-grade security controls for business accounts.
Cisco and NVIDIA Bring Secure AI to the Enterprise Edge
Cisco announced a major expansion of its Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA at GTC 2026 on 17 March, extending AI deployment capabilities from central data centres to edge locations including warehouses, hospitals, and vehicles. The platform compresses enterprise AI deployment timelines from months to weeks, with zero-trust security and agent-level guardrails built in from the start. AT&T is the first service provider to bring these capabilities to market.
Perplexity's 'Computer' Agent Targets Enterprise Workflows
Perplexity has launched its multi-model AI agent, Computer, for enterprise customers, positioning itself as a direct competitor to Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce. The platform orchestrates 20 frontier AI models inside an isolated cloud environment to execute complex, multi-step workflows autonomously. The enterprise launch adds SOC 2 compliance, SAML single sign-on, native Slack integration, and connectors for Snowflake, Salesforce, and HubSpot.
NVIDIA GTC 2026: NemoClaw Brings Enterprise AI Agents to Every Business
NVIDIA launched NemoClaw at GTC 2026 today, an open-source platform that lets businesses deploy AI agents without proprietary lock-in. Paired with the Vera Rubin chip platform, which delivers up to 10 times cheaper AI inference than its predecessor, NVIDIA has made a clear push to become the foundational layer for the agentic AI era. For operators, this means the infrastructure for autonomous AI workflows is becoming faster, cheaper, and more accessible.
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