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American Express (Amex) is building a system that lets AI agents shop and pay on behalf of users — but right now it’s only within its own payment network, and still involves a black box that could hinder trust and auditability. Amex already participates in agentic commerce protocol projects, especially Google’s Agent Pay Protocol (AP2),…

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 around autonomous AI is no longer theoretical but operational and urgent. The product, first announced at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in November, positions itself as…

The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI.  The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn’t cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat’s Q1 2026 Pulse survey underscores this trend: Every standalone vector database is losing adoption share, while hybrid retrieval intent…