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Workday to bring Sana into Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Teams and Slack
Workday announced at its Rising 2026 conference that Sana — its agentic experience and orchestration engine — will operate inside Claude, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. A single connection carries each company's permissions, policies, and approval workflows, allowing Workday's HR and finance agents to complete work inside whichever AI tool an employee is already using, without exposing raw Workday data to third-party platforms.
Workday's Trusted Agent Platform goes headless, letting customers build and run their own HR and finance agents
At Workday Rising 2026 in Las Vegas, Workday announced its Trusted Agent Platform has gone headless, allowing customers to build, deploy, and govern AI agents across HR and finance without requiring users to log into the Workday interface. Five components — Agent-Ready Tools, Workday Data Cloud, Developer Agent, Custom Agents, and Agent Harness — are now generally available. The platform enforces Workday's existing permissions, approvals, and audit trails across every agent regardless of origin. Multi-model support spans Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Mistral, OpenAI GPT, and newly added NVIDIA Nemotron. Two further capabilities — Agent Context Service and Grounded Reasoning — are on the roadmap for early 2027.
Workday Rising - Dow wants to adopt agentic AI, but Flex Credits are a barrier - diginomica
At Workday Rising, Dow Chemical reportedly flagged Workday's Flex Credits pricing model as a meaningful obstacle to scaling the platform's agentic AI capabilities across the enterprise — a tension that could resonate with many large Workday customers weighing similar deployments.
Accenture Launches Forward Deployed Engineering Program with Workday to Reinvent Work for the Agentic AI Era - Business Wire
Accenture has launched a Forward Deployed Engineering Program with Workday to embed agentic AI capabilities directly into HCM workflows, according to Business Wire. The initiative reportedly aims to fundamentally reshape how work is designed and executed as autonomous AI agents move from concept to enterprise deployment.
Our New Partnership With Workday
Josh Bersin and Workday have announced a formal research partnership, unveiled at Workday Rising, focused on the 'HR 2030' framework — Bersin's concept for an agentic AI-powered HR operating model. The collaboration will produce whitepapers, tools, education programs, and advisory services. A first joint guidebook, 'HR 2030: A Playbook for Agentic HR,' is already available. The partnership builds on Workday's 2025 acquisition of Sana Labs, which co-developed Bersin's Galileo AI platform. An integration of Galileo into the Workday platform is also reportedly in the pipeline.
Metaview Expands Workday Integration to Bring Agentic Recruiting to the Fortune 500
Metaview has expanded its two-way integration with Workday, enabling enterprise and Fortune 500 employers to run AI recruiting agents directly inside their existing Workday environment — no system replacement required.
Accenture launches Workday engineering programme for agentic AI - DQ
Accenture has reportedly launched an engineering programme aimed at embedding agentic AI capabilities into the Workday platform. The move signals a push to bring autonomous, agent-driven workflow automation to one of the enterprise HCM market's most widely deployed systems. Programme specifics — including scope, participating clients, and go-live timelines — have not been disclosed.
Workday expands agentic AI automation for HR teams - TechTarget
Workday is reportedly expanding its agentic AI capabilities designed for HR teams, according to TechTarget. The move signals a deeper push by the HCM giant to deploy autonomous agents that can execute multi-step people-operations workflows — from recruiting to employee lifecycle management — with minimal human intervention.
Workday brings autopilots to hiring, payroll in autonomous AI bet
Workday has announced a suite of autonomous 'autopilot' AI agents for hiring, payroll, and accounting — marking a strategic pivot from prompt-driven AI assistants to proactive agents that can initiate and complete tasks independently, with customer-configured guardrails.
AI agents will enter workplaces. Accenture and Workday will use the lessons to shape Workday's tools. - Stock Titan
Accenture and Workday are joining forces to deploy AI agents inside enterprise workplaces, with insights from those live rollouts feeding directly back into Workday's product roadmap. The partnership reflects a growing industry shift toward using real-world workforce data — rather than controlled testing — to refine agentic AI tooling for HR and business operations.
Eightfold AI: Interview With Chief Product Officer Sachit Kamat About Agentic AI And Talent Intelligence - Pulse 2.0
Eightfold AI's Chief Product Officer Sachit Kamat sat down with Pulse 2.0 to discuss the company's strategic emphasis on agentic AI and talent intelligence — offering a window into where one of HR tech's most-watched AI platforms is heading as autonomous hiring tools move from concept to enterprise reality.
Workday Named as a Market Shaper in the 2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Agents in Human Resources — Established Vendors - PR Newswire
Workday has reportedly been named a 'Market Shaper' in the 2026 Gartner Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Agents in Human Resources (Established Vendors), according to a company press release on PR Newswire. The designation places Workday among established vendors Gartner recognizes as actively shaping the nascent agentic AI-for-HR segment.
Workday Expands Agentic AI in HR With New Total Benefits Experience - Cloud Wars
Workday is reportedly expanding its agentic AI capabilities within its HR platform through a new offering called Total Benefits Experience, according to Cloud Wars. The product is designed to automate and personalize how employees interact with and manage their benefits — marking a concrete step in Workday's broader push to embed autonomous AI agents into core HR processes.
Nvidia's AI agent safety guardrail raises HR tech governance questions - HR Executive
Nvidia's newly introduced AI agent safety guardrail is drawing attention from HR technology observers, with HR Executive reporting that the development is prompting fresh governance questions for HR and People leaders deploying autonomous AI agents in workforce workflows. While the specific technical details of Nvidia's guardrail have not been fully disclosed, the move is seen as a catalyst for the industry to examine how organizations oversee, audit, and control AI agents embedded in HR processes such as recruiting, employee support, and performance management.
LinkedIn Launches Hiring Assistant 2 With Recruiter Memory, Trust Signals and Deeper ATS Integration
LinkedIn's next-generation recruiting agent learns how each recruiter hires, adds verification and candidate-interest signals, and manages talent pools across ATSs including Greenhouse, Lever and SmartRecruiters. Existing English-language customers get the update free from November 2026.
HiringCafe Secures $6.8 Million to Tackle the ‘Hidden Job Market’ With AI Talent Agents
HiringCafe has closed a $6.8 million pre-seed round led by Spark Capital to scale its AI-powered job discovery platform and roll out an autonomous 'AI Talent Agent' that hunts for open roles on candidates' behalf — a development that signals rising investor conviction in agentic AI on the candidate side of recruiting.
Ema raises $77M in funding to deploy AI employees across enterprise HR, IT and finance departments - SiliconANGLE
Ema has secured $77M in new funding to scale its agentic AI platform, which deploys autonomous agents as so-called 'AI employees' across enterprise HR, IT, and finance functions. The raise underscores surging investor interest in digital-workforce automation and puts HR leaders on notice that AI-agent governance is becoming an urgent boardroom priority.
Paychex Q1 FY2027: Revenue Rises 6% to $1.63B as PEO and AI Momentum Build
Paychex reported Q1 FY2027 revenue of $1.63B (+6%), net income of $429.7M (+12%) and adjusted EPS of $1.34 (+10%), reaffirming full-year guidance.
Spott Raises $21M Series A to Build an AI-Native OS for Recruitment Agencies
Spott, an AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies, raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital, with Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino participating. Revenue has grown more than tenfold since the start of 2026.
Agentic AI in HR: Lessons From IBM, Workday and Josh Bersin - Business Chief
Business Chief has published a feature examining how agentic AI is reshaping HR functions, drawing on perspectives from IBM, Workday, and industry analyst Josh Bersin. The piece frames adoption considerations for HR practitioners navigating the shift toward autonomous AI agents in the workplace.
AI & AutomationKastle Raises $24M Series A Led by Insight Partners to Build the AI Workforce for Banking Operations - PR Newswire
Kastle, a startup building autonomous AI agents for banking back-office operations, has closed a $24M Series A led by Insight Partners. The round underscores rising investor appetite for purpose-built 'AI workforce' platforms — digital workers designed to handle domain-specific operational tasks in regulated industries — and sharpens the strategic question facing HR and people-ops leaders in financial services: how to govern, integrate, and manage a workforce that increasingly blends human and AI workers.
Jack & Jill Secures $40M Series A to Replace Job Applications with AI Agents
Jack & Jill, an AI-native hiring marketplace, has closed a $40M Series A led by Air Street Capital, with Creandum and Madrona participating. The company is building AI agents that replace traditional job applications by orchestrating professional introductions between candidates and employers at scale — a direct challenge to incumbent ATS-driven hiring workflows.
Phenom Unveils Agenda for AI Day 2026, Its Annual Technical Showcase Behind Applied AI & Agents for HR
Phenom has published the agenda for AI Day 2026, its annual technical showcase centered on applied AI and agentic capabilities for HR. The event underscores the vendor's continued investment in AI-driven hiring and talent tools, though specific product announcements or launch details have not been disclosed.
AI Governance & EthicsAgentic AI adoption outpacing governance: report - hcamag.com
A new report cited by HCAMag finds that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is outpacing the governance frameworks organizations have in place to manage it — a gap with significant implications for HR leaders rolling out autonomous AI tools in hiring and people operations.
SIA Report: The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026
Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) has released a global research report titled 'The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026,' authored by Executive Director of Global Research John Nurthen. The report examines how AI-driven digital worker agents are reportedly moving from experimental to mainstream across recruitment workflows worldwide. Specific findings and data points from the report have not been disclosed in available summaries.
Jack & Jill Raises £30M Series A For AI Hiring Agents - konsulteer.com
AI recruiting startup Jack & Jill has reportedly closed a £30M Series A to build and scale AI hiring agents, according to konsulteer.com. The round underscores continued investor appetite for agentic automation in talent acquisition. Key details — including lead investor, valuation, and founding team — have not been disclosed in available reporting.
Company NewsWorkday Revenue Hits $2.649 Billion as AI Drives More Than 25% of New ACV
Workday reported fiscal 2027 second-quarter revenue of $2.649 billion, up 12.8% year over year, with subscription revenue rising 13.9% to $2.471 billion. More importantly, AI is beginning to show measurable commercial impact: CEO Aneel Bhus
Product NewshireEZ Rebuilds Its Recruiting Platform From the Ground Up Around AI Agents
hireEZ has rebuilt its talent acquisition platform around agents, with access starting Aug. 27. EZ Agent works across 1B+ professional profiles plus ATS and talent community data, while recruiters retain approval over strategy, shortlists a
NewsWorkday Surges on Reported Silver Lake Takeover Talks: A New Test for SaaS in the AI Era
A reported takeover approach has suddenly put Workday at the center of one of the largest potential enterprise software transactions in years. Reuters reported on August 13 that technology investment firm Silver Lake has been in discussi
Venture CapitalDeel Surpasses $1.5B ARR With 15th Acquisition, Embedding Clarity’s Deepfake Defense Across Global Hiring
Deel has acquired AI cybersecurity company Clarity in its 15th acquisition after surpassing $1.5B in ARR. Clarity’s deepfake detection and identity verification will connect candidate screening, onboarding, device provisioning, and workforc
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