JetBrains has made Air Governance, formerly JetBrains Central, generally available. It gives companies one place to control which agents, models and providers teams use, cap spending and track what that usage costs and delivers.
A Harvard study of 718 firms using Jellyfish data finds that coding assistants and agents produce more code without a matching rise in finished work. Part of the reason is the extra load they create later on, especially in code review.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributes the breach of ConnectWise's Cloud Backup service to Storm-0940, a China-aligned group that relied on AI agents. The intrusion opened a path into customers' Microsoft 365 accounts, a sign that agents are now part of state-linked attack toolkits.
An n8n guide explains that running a model yourself is not always cheaper than calling an API. It covers when on-premises wins, what local hardware can handle and how to route requests between local and cloud models.
Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström explains why the rise of AI agents could benefit the streaming service. The idea is to become the default music provider when agents pick on users' behalf.
Action State Group is releasing open-source tools that let businesses independently check records of what AI agents did, as agents start buying, selling and delegating work between companies. The set includes EvidenceBook, which keeps tamper-evident records, and Terms Packs for evaluating agent behavior.