Today on Product Saturday: Microsoft unveils a new open-source project designed to get apps running on Microsoft Fabric, Workday launches a new agent-building tools and observability service, and the quote of the week.
Today: Microsoft's Omar Shahine thinks knowledge workers will soon delegate a lot of their busywork to its new personal assistant, Anthropic details how Claude is building Claude, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake hopes to make it easier for customers to share data and improve agent reliability, Microsoft jumps back in the AI model game, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: Microsoft unveils a new open-source project designed to get apps running on Microsoft Fabric, Workday launches a new agent-building tools and observability service, and the quote of the week.
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Ray of light: Ever since it was launched three years ago at Microsoft Build, the Fabric data analytics platform has been one of the company's fastest-growing enterprise services. This week at Build 2026 Microsoft introduced a new open-source tool called Rayfin that helps developers spin up backend services to power their agent-created apps.
Rayfin "lets developers and coding agents describe what to build and get an enterprise-grade application backend directly into the application code, including a database, authentication, and more," the company said in a blog post. Replit will be the first AI-coding platform to support Rayfin, which could give "developers something they’ve never had before: a path from idea to enterprise-grade production that’s measured in hours, not months," Replit CEO Amjad Masad said in the blog post.
Plugged in: OpenAI's pivot to the enterprise will have to center knowledge workers, not just developers, if it wants to generate more revenue from businesses. This week it introduced new features for its Codex AI coding tool that do just that, hoping to build on the roughly 1 million weekly non-developer users currently working with the tool.
The new features include "plugins that adapt Codex to your role and tools, annotations that help you refine the result in place, and a preview of the ability to create interactive websites and apps you can share with your workspace using a URL," OpenAI said in a blog post. Successful enterprise software services have always found ways to integrate with the wide variety of other tools used in day-to-day business, and the new Codex plugins work with enterprise stalwarts like Snowflake, Databricks, Salesforce, Figma, and HubSpot, among others.
The other Build: During a packed week of enterprise tech news, Workday added two new services to its Workday Build agent-development platform. Like several of the new services Snowflake unveiled at its own event this week, Workday's new additions focus on helping developers add context to their agents by connecting them with the right data sets and making sure nothing goes astray.
"Unlike traditional APIs designed for data integrations, Agent-Ready Tools are purpose-built to power agents, providing agents with precise, easy-to-navigate business logic and context while reducing hallucination and latency," the company said in a press release. Workday also launched Agent Passport, which addresses governance issues by ensuring agents were properly tested before hitting production and monitors their activity while running.
Just a Dash: While every enterprise software vendor on the planet continues to build more or less the same agent building and management product, Asana is taking a slightly different path. This week the company unveiled several pre-built agents that it thinks customers will want to use to help manage their Asana task boards.
The highlight was Asana Dash, an "AI Chief of Staff" that "captures follow-ups from meetings, Slack threads, and email, turns them into structured work in the Work Graph, and connects users to the right AI Teammates for specific tasks and projects to move work forward," the company said in a blog post. The company also said it plans to incorporate its recent StackAI acquisition into several upcoming products, including an IT service management tool and a product-management tool that will put it up against some heavy competition.
Cosmic coding: Software organizations that have embraced AI coding agents still need to figure out how they are going to manage and review all that code before it gets into production, because most of those companies are well beyond "vibe coding" at this point. This week Augment Code released a new cloud development platform that uses agents to manage testing, debugging, and automated responses to newly identified issues.
Cosmos agents "help you build automations, improve experts, and debug workflows you've already built," the company said in a blog post. The idea is to extend working with AI coding agents designed for individual developers into a more collaborative process: "Every single leader, engineering leader, that I talked to was doing top-down, you have to adopt agents… but then they were all equally unsatisfied when they were looking at the team throughput," Augment Code's Vinay Perneti told SiliconAngle.
The companies that have managed to use generative AI technology, and then agents, in their actual production applications over the last couple of years tend to have one thing in common: their data was organized and ready for automated access. New research from Veeam bears that out: "While 88% of organizations are already using or piloting AI agents, only 7% qualify as truly AI-ready and 95% say data challenges have already slowed their AI progress," it said in a recent report.
"I think tokenmaxxing is a terrible idea." — Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, reiterating in a press conference Monday what most other companies seem to have concluded over the last few weeks after experiments with bringing some "masculine energy" to agentic coding tools backfired in spectacular fashion.
Google cut a deal with SpaceX to rent "approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components" from the company, according to TechCrunch, joining Anthropic in sending a clear signal that SpaceX appears to have a lot of excess computing capacity to lend out ahead of an IPO that hinges quite a bit on its ability to sell enterprise AI.
Google's Mandiant warned companies about a new ransomware scam targeting law firms that actually involves real people posing as IT workers gaining physical access to end-user devices and stealing data using USB keys, which is not great.
Thanks for reading — see you Monday!
Today: Microsoft's Omar Shahine thinks knowledge workers will soon delegate a lot of their busywork to its new personal assistant, Anthropic details how Claude is building Claude, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake hopes to make it easier for customers to share data and improve agent reliability, Microsoft jumps back in the AI model game, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: AWS overhauls its managed OpenSearch service with agents in mind, Clickhouse hits a revenue milestone and rolls out a tool for building agents, and the quote of the week.
Today: Snowflake's massive quarter shows once again that AI deployments hinge on data quality, Anthropic drops Opus 4.8 and picks up an enormous pile of cash, and the latest enterprise moves.
