Sunday, October 25, 2026
Google launched the Gemini agent on October 8, pitching a single universal agent that works across Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack and takes objectives instead of instructions. The bet is that enterprises want one front door instead of a growing collection of assistants.
Meta spent more than a hundred million dollars on a single AI coding tool in a twenty-eight day window, then told its engineers to stop. Microsoft cut the same tool's per-employee allowance by ninety per cent. The experiment phase is over. The audit has begun.
Deployments stall on the unglamorous discovery that the organisation cannot say what its own records mean. The model is fine. The inputs were never assembled for this.
Procurement departments, tired of negotiating novel terms for every AI vendor, are converging on shared contract language for data handling, evaluation and exit.