AI Agents Are Becoming Operational Infrastructure

AI Agents Are Becoming Operational Infrastructure

Editor’s Note: Welcome to Prompt, your weekly briefing on the shifting AI landscape. We provide an analytical look at the week’s biggest developments, paired with a curated roundup of the stories that actually matter.  The next phase of AI isn’t just about models. It’s about agents becoming operational. AI agents are moving from experimentation into…

Deliveroo software engineers hand coding to AI agents

Deliveroo software engineers hand coding to AI agents

Wednesday 06 May 2026 3:07 pm  |  Updated:  Wednesday 06 May 2026 3:30 pm Deliveroo actively encourages engineers to use AI tools Deliveroo software engineers are almost fully letting AI agents write their code, with one employee telling City AM they have barely coded manually for almost a year as the food delivery giant embraces ‘agentic’…

Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry

Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry

At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered in the last decade, plus some new ones. In Microsoft’s own words, “Foundry consolidates several previous Azure AI services and tools into a unified platform” and “unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping.”…

SlashID Launches AI Identity Governance, the First Access Graph-Native Solution Built to Govern OAuth-Connected AI Apps, Agents, and MCP Servers

SlashID Launches AI Identity Governance, the First Access Graph-Native Solution Built to Govern OAuth-Connected AI Apps, Agents, and MCP Servers

Purpose-built to extend SlashID’s Access Graph to every AI identity touching corporate data — from OAuth 2.0 app authorizations and MCP servers to cloud-hosted models and browser-based shadow AI — with policy-based controls and continuous segregation-of-duties enforcement NEW YORK, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SlashID, the…

Operant AI Launches Endpoint Protector: Securing Shadow AI, Coding Agents, and MCP Across the Enterprise

Operant AI Launches Endpoint Protector: Securing Shadow AI, Coding Agents, and MCP Across the Enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO, May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Operant AI, the leader in AI security, today announced the launch of Operant Endpoint Protector, a new addition to its AI Defense Platform that lets enterprise IT and security teams discover, detect, and defend against threats across every AI tool, coding agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-connected…

Agentic AI and compliance: How autonomous agents are redrawing software risk boundaries

Agentic AI and compliance: How autonomous agents are redrawing software risk boundaries

Agentic AI and compliance: How autonomous agents are redrawing software risk boundaries For decades, compliance in financial services has been a fundamentally human-led endeavor. Even as automation, as a result of technological advances, accelerated — whether via rules engines, robotic process automation, or machine learning — the final judgments around onboarding, monitoring, and reporting stayed…

Nokod Survey Finds Security Teams Only See 44% of Apps, Agents, and Automations Built By Business Users

Nokod Survey Finds Security Teams Only See 44% of Apps, Agents, and Automations Built By Business Users

Classified in: Science and technologySubject: SVY A new survey of 200 enterprise CISOs reveals a massive governance gap – while 90% of enterprises are working to standardize AI tool security, 80% of teams lack full visibility into the agents powering their core business. BOULDER, Colo., April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nokod, the cybersecurity platform securing…

Scaling Marketing Operations With Claude Agents and Skills

Scaling Marketing Operations With Claude Agents and Skills

Marketing automation can streamline repetitive tasks, maintain brand consistency and free up time for strategic growth. In her breakdown, Grace Leung explores how to use Claude Design and Claude Skills to build a structured, scalable system for automating marketing workflows. A key focus is on categorizing tasks into three distinct skill types: Brand Skills for…

OpenAI Agents SDK update brings production-ready AI tools

OpenAI Agents SDK update brings production-ready AI tools

AI agents are growing up. And they need infrastructure. OpenAI announced the next evolution of its Agents SDK, positioning it as standardised infrastructure to help developers move agent-based systems from prototype to production. The update introduces a model-native harness and built-in sandbox execution, aiming to reduce the engineering overhead that often slows down real-world deployment….

Local AI Agents Guide: Setup, Safety, and Workflows for 2026

Local AI Agents Guide: Setup, Safety, and Workflows for 2026

Local AI agents are autonomous systems that run directly on personal devices, offering capabilities like task automation, workflow management and personalized assistance. Unlike cloud-based systems, they operate locally, emphasizing data privacy and customization. In the video below Tina Huang breaks down the essential components that enable these agents to function effectively, such as hosting environments,…