The Hallway Track
11 tracked signals on enterprise-agents.
Microsoft introduces Microsoft IQ to give agents shared enterprise context, addressing why agentic projects fail.
“More than 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to fail. And that's not because the models aren't capable, but it's because the agents lack the context that they need to be able to succeed.”
Microsoft IQ gives enterprise agents grounded context via four intelligence sources for meaningful outcomes
“Models give agents intelligence but contexts give that intelligence meaning”
Enterprise AI agents fail due to ambiguity, staleness, and preference problems, not model size.
“while all of these are fair solutions, they're not the answer to actually improving the data agent itself”
Microsoft introduces Agent 365 to make enterprise agents discoverable, secure, observable, and governed.
“IDC predicts that by 2028 there will be 1.3 billion agents in organization.”
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service adds procedural memory so agents reliably reuse proven execution patterns in production.
“agents often know the right facts and still fail the task because they do not execute the right procedure”
AWS adds per-request domain and date filters to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search
“A financial-services agent shouldn't ground its answers in an unvetted blog.”
Microsoft Foundry Toolboxes automate user-delegated auth so agents never handle token plumbing.
“Auth lives on the toolbox, not in the agent: You pick an auth type once, when you connect a tool — the agent code stays auth-free.”
Microsoft adds Web IQ to its IQ family, letting agents reason across all intelligence domains.
“we try to make sure that Claude is able to operate wherever the customer wants Claude.”
Microsoft Purview extends data security and compliance controls to enterprise AI apps and agents.
“82% of our leaders expect to deploy agents in the next 12 to 18 months”
Microsoft launches Agents League Hackathon 2026 with $50K prizes, requiring use of new Microsoft IQ intelligence layers.
“All submissions must integrate at least one Microsoft IQ intelligence layer”
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