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AI & Jobs At Dreamforce on September 15, Siemens said an engagement agent and a qualification agent now handle its entire inbound funnel for 18,000 sellers. Still unshipped: Piper, which the release calls 「an AI SDR agent」.
AI & Jobs Andon Labs opened Pion on September 14, a waitlisted platform for handing a business to persistent agents. The same week, a reporter walked into the company's own AI-run San Francisco shop and found no customers and $60,000 left of the original $100,000.
AI & Jobs State broadcaster CCTV carried a China Telecom Research Institute report on September 12: the country's AI industry is moving from competing on models to selling agents. The load-bearing figure is 80% — inference's share of China's compute market by 2029.
AI & Jobs Zscaler says the agents were trained on more than 10 years of front-line SOC and MDR work, running on 750 billion zero-trust transactions a day. The customer quote in the release names the job: top analysts stuck in triage instead of hunting.
AI & Jobs GitLab laid off about 350 people — 14% of staff — and exited 22 countries for the 'agentic era,' while beating earnings and calling it not a cost-cutting exercise.
AI & Jobs Workday sold the enterprise version of the agent that replaces your colleagues this week. Google just put the consumer version on a $99.99 monthly subscription.
AI & Jobs The Cloudflare op-ed named the worker about to be replaced. Workday's Q1 print, dropped the same week, named the vendor doing the replacing — and put a dollar figure on it.
AI & Jobs Arctic Wolf cut about 250 people on May 6 — sales engineers, PMs, marketers — and reframed the move as funding for its Aurora Superintelligence Platform and Agentic SOC. The pre-IPO unicorn is replacing its Concierge pitch with a 「Swarm of Experts」 pitch, three months after launching the agentic product.