AI Agents News Digest

MYOB and Microsoft Partner to Transform Small Business AI

Microsoft and MYOB announced a five-year partnership to bring AI agents directly into small business tools. MYOB will use Microsoft's Agent 365 for governance and deploy customer-facing agents that forecast cash flow and guide compliance. For employees, AI teammates will handle case summaries and customer support triage, speeding feature releases from months to weeks.

Privacy Tool Catches AI Agents Mishandling Your Data

Researchers at RIT released AudAgent, a tool that monitors what AI agents do with sensitive information. The study found that agents powered by Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek failed to refuse handling Social Security numbers, while GPT-4o performed better. This matters because agents can unknowingly store or share your passwords, health data, and location information.

Enterprise Concerns Grow as AI Agents Go Mainstream

96% of organizations now use AI agents, but 94% worry about uncontrolled agent sprawl, according to OutSystems research. The real challenge: enterprises are moving from testing to production faster than governance systems can keep up. Success requires treating AI agents as operational capabilities with security built in from day one, not technologies to evaluate later.