GitLab CEO Bill Staples says enterprises’ monthly bill for developer platform services has risen from tens of dollars per seat to hundreds over the last year, and is headed toward the thousands, signaling a structural change in how they will be billed for AI-enabled software development tools.
The increase in cost reflects the volume of work AI agents generate inside development pipelines, Staples wrote in an open letter to customers, investors, and employees titled “GitLab Act 2. “Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did,” he wrote.
GitLab introduced consumption pricing for agent work earlier this year and will now allow customers to mix consumption and subscription pricing, the letter said.
The announcement comes as software vendors increasingly reposition themselves around autonomous AI systems and usage-based pricing.
Earlier this year, rival GitHub moved Copilot toward usage-based billing as AI-as
The vendor is rolling out AI agents across its fixed network platforms to automate troubleshooting, improve customer support and accelerate fiber deployment.
Personal AI doesn’t have to run your life to change it. It just must see you clearly and feed your behavior back to you in a way you can’t dodge. Once you look at AI as feedback loops instead of little butlers, the whole “agent” conversation starts to feel upside down. We’ve overrotated on agents […]
AI agents are moving beyond simple command-line tools into systems that can plan, schedule, call tools, and run automated workflows. Nous Research’s Hermes Agent framework offers a self-hosted runtime for building advanced agents with state management, tool integration, and secure execution. It supports multi-step planning, background task control, and real-world automation beyond single-purpose coding assistants. […]
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Laserfiche has announced the release of AI agents that can help perform tasks through natural language prompts. Intelligent assistants follow Laserfiche’s integrated security rules and compliance requirements, helping ensure all sensitive data remains protected. Karl Chan, CEO of Laserfiche, said, “The introduction of AI Agents to content management signals a change in how we handle […]
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Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and […]
Human-in-the-Loop becomes an operational bottleneck In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I argued that AI agents need a deterministic execution kernel—a privileged “Kernel Space” that validates every proposed action before it touches the real world. That article focused on what happens at the execution boundary: idempotency, JIT state verification, and DFID-correlated […]
AI agents are evolving into always-on autonomous systems that can remember, learn, and operate continuously across multiple platforms. OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Claude are leading this transformation, but each is taking a radically different approach that could define the future of AI automation.
AI Library, an outcome-based software delivery startup founded in 2023 by Arani Chaudhuri, has raised $560,000 in pre-seed funding at a $7.5 million valuation cap to accelerate its AI agent-driven approach to enterprise software deployment. The company’s platform automates the software delivery lifecycle using AI agents with human oversight, targeting enterprise functions including finance, operations, […]
Perplexity has opened its Personal Computer feature to all Mac users through a new desktop app, bringing local AI agent capabilities beyond its previous Max subscriber waitlist. The tool extends Perplexity’s cloud-based Computer product onto users’ own devices, giving AI agents access to local files, native Mac applications, over 400 connectors, and the web to […]
I counted at least 10 events in San Francisco last night aimed at matching AI startups with VCs. Just another Thursday.
But what made Camp AI’s “Agents at Work” event (hosted by Auth0) stand out was its showcase of companies that are in various stages of reorganizing their engineering processes around AI agents. Browserbase, Mastra, Fireworks AI, Drata, Mya, MindFort, and Corridor are all part of the vendor ecosystem trying to enable secure and performant agentic AI, but the most revelatory stories were their own successes and the challenges they faced restructuring their engineering orgs for agents.
Agentic AI is reshaping team structures
Paul Klein IV, founder and CEO of Browserbase, delivered the night’s most memorable line while discussing the speed of AI adoption inside engineering teams. “If AI is not doing your whole job it’s a skill issue at this point,” said Klein.
Abhi Aiyer, founder and CTO of Mastra, said the result is dramatically smaller teams capable of executing much l
Standard prompt attacks are merely the beginning. A structured framework to map and mitigate the backend attack vectors of agentic workflows.
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As agents move past demos and into enterprise workflows, organizations are confronting the governance, infrastructure and operational problems posed by more autonomous AI systems.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Nace.AI has announced it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding, led by Walden Catalyst with participation from General Catalyst and a group of leading institutional and angel investors. Alongside the raise, the company is launching its new product in research preview, a new model for professional work where 100+ specialized AI agents […]
