Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]

As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer

Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them.Gartner estimates that the average global Fortune 500 company w [...]

NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message

Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems [...]

Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane

New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI [...]

An AI agent rewrote a Fortune 50 security policy. Here's how to govern AI agents before one does the same.

A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identi [...]

Microsoft's AI Futurist explains how he uses Copilot — and the real-world problems enterprises are solving with agents

Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives [...]

Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat

Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]