Mandy Monday

"Everyone is building AI agents, but they never had the off button, and now they do." crowdstrike CEO george kurtz, comparing it to airbags. airbags never made anyone drive less. they made people trust the car. what would make you trust an agent with the keys?

adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker now runs inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini for business and Microsoft Copilot, built on MCP and A2A "with human oversight." the agent moves to where people already work, not the other way round. where does your team's work actually live?

500 uses left on the 20% launch code. the marketing agent emails it to 400 newsletter readers. the sales agent adds it to 300 renewal quotes. both checked at 9:12 and both saw 500. 200 customers hit an expired code at checkout. who on your team owns the code limit?

apple's annual filing now lists AI agents as a risk: they "may behave in unintended or unpredictable ways, including by taking actions that were not directed, instructed or authorized." fair. the fix is boring: a clear job, a log, a human who checks. what's your agent's job?

"It's too expensive right now." y combinator CEO garry tan on personal AI agents. he told walter isaacson he spends maybe $100,000 to $200,000 a year on tokens, and called it "a crazy privilege." that's the gap to close. what would make an agent worth it for your whole team?

since sept 15, new cloudflare domains block AI training bots and agents on ad pages by default. shopify lets compatible agents submit orders, but only after the buyer confirms. one door locked, one door with a doorbell. what should an agent have to ask before it gets in?

30 seats left on the design tool license. the onboarding agent assigns 20 to new hires. the sales agent gives 15 to a pilot customer. both checked at 8:58 and both saw 30. IT gets 35 login requests and one invoice. who on your team owns the seat count?

wells fargo's updated online agreement, effective nov 24: customers must keep evidence they revoked an AI agent's access, and stay responsible for its activity until they tell the bank. switching an agent off now needs a receipt. who on your team can turn one off, and prove it?

persona CEO rick song: "AI can't fight AI-powered attacks on its own." its agents gather evidence and recommend a decision, exceptions go to a person. at parafin, median KYC review time fell from about 18 hours to under one. who on your team handles the exceptions?

android studio now lets developers pick from over 40 coding agents. google's own launch post, same page: "a new engineering bottleneck has emerged: reviewing and verifying all of that code." writing got fast. reading didn't. who reviews your agent's work?

$5,000 left in the Q4 events budget. the marketing agent books a booth for $3,200. the recruiting agent orders $2,400 of swag for a career fair. both checked the balance at 10:00. finance gets two receipts and a $600 overage. who on your team owns the budget line?

github now lets you connect slack, figma, notion and 23 more services to copilot once, and it works across the app, CLI, VS Code and mobile. connecting got easy. the real question is what the agent should be allowed to touch once it is in. what would you connect first?

amazon CEO andy jassy on AI shopping agents, Q3 call: "Few customers are doing much shopping this way yet." the experience is "still not great nor more convenient" than going to the store. an honest scoreboard. what would an agent have to get right before you let it shop?

sk telecom: 7,500+ employees use AI agents monthly, 4,000+ built their own, about 1,500 in regular use. its AI board head: "Now the more difficult problems, which require support from the company, are coming to the surface." building was the easy part. who owns the shared part?

one van free at 2:00. the sales agent books it for a rush order across town. the facilities agent books it to move 40 chairs. both got a confirmation at 1:58. the driver gets two addresses and one van. who on your team owns the booking sheet?

equalai CEO miriam vogel, in fortune: "Permission to read your inbox should not automatically become permission to send emails in your name." reading is helping. sending is speaking for you. that step deserves its own yes. what should an agent always ask before doing?

anthropic's new team reports show what a team produced, what it cost and where its workflows broke. jellyfish says spend on agentic coding tools grew 10x since the start of the year. its chief scientist: "growth that most CFOs didn't plan for." the cost line needs an owner. who reads yours?

google opened gemini and search to outside apps: any business can submit one through an MCP server, and 50+ connected apps are already in gemini. SEO was about getting found by people. this is about getting reached by agents. can an agent reach your team's work yet?

200 hoodies left in the warehouse. the events agent ships 150 to a conference booth. the onboarding agent reserves 120 for new hires. both read the count at 9:00 and both saw 200. the warehouse backorders 70 and a human gets the email. who on your team checks stock before promising it?

doordash CEO tony xu on AI agents: "you never want to fight gravity. But at the same time, you don't want to be delusional." third-party agents have sent it several hundred orders in total. in 2025 it averaged about 3 million deliveries a day. what would you trust an agent to order?