Filings, briefings, and event recaps from AFI's ongoing effort to educate policymakers on the opportunities and risks of agentic AI.
AFI's policy brief making the pro-competition case for agentic AI — covering cloud marketplaces, enterprise-grade business intelligence, and data integration platforms as leveling forces for small businesses and startups.
Nine pages covering threat taxonomy, identity frameworks, risk tiering, and deployment environment controls for agentic AI systems. Submitted in response to the CAISI Request for Information on AI Agent Security.
Senior officials from the VP's office, OCC, Treasury, NIST, UK FCA, and European Parliament join AFI members to discuss agentic AI in financial services.
Brought together founding members, other industry players, Members of Congress, representatives from the Department of Energy, and the British Embassy.
AFI formally launches as a cross-industry coalition to educate policymakers on agentic AI, with founding members across AI development, cloud infrastructure, financial services, defense, and enterprise.
Anthropic unveils 10 pre-built AI agents for banking, insurance, asset management, and fintech — alongside Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable model for financial work — in a push to become the operating layer for Wall Street.
Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business — prebuilt agentic workflows and connectors embedded directly into QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, and Microsoft 365 — putting AI agents within reach of any small business owner.
AWS introduces Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, letting autonomous AI agents make real-time purchases using stablecoins — in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe — as a foundational building block for the agentic economy.
Plaid's State of Intelligent Finance Report (Spring 2026) examines how AI is reshaping what consumers and businesses expect from financial technology.
AWS introduces AgentCore, a new set of capabilities in Amazon Bedrock designed to accelerate enterprise AI agent development and deployment at scale.
Anthropic introduces Claude Managed Agents to streamline and accelerate AI agent development for enterprise teams building production-grade agentic applications.
EdgeRunner AI launches WarClaw, an agentic decision system designed for real-time autonomous operations at the tactical edge for defense applications.
Intuit and Anthropic announce a multi-year partnership to deliver trusted financial intelligence and custom AI agents to consumers and businesses through Intuit's platform.
Unstructured published a detailed enterprise blueprint explaining why most AI agent pilots fail due to poor data architecture, with 70–85% of AI project failures stemming directly from data issues.
Lilt published findings on how global content leaders are using agentic AI for translation at scale.
EdgeRunner released military-specific AI agents for logistics, combat medicine, and combat arms at no cost to Department of War users.
Plaid detailed two internal AI agents: the AI Annotator for data labeling and Fix My Connection for repairing bank integrations, enabling over 2 million successful user-permissioned logins and reducing fix time by 90%.
AWS unveiled AgentCore Memory, AgentCore Policy, and AgentCore Evaluations at re:Invent 2025, expanding its suite of tools for building, governing, and assessing enterprise AI agents.
Anthropic unveiled its enterprise agents program — its most aggressive push to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces — including prebuilt plugin templates for financial analysis, investment banking, equity research, and engineering.
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