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Purla, Purples.ai's AI agent, at the centre of an isometric paper-cut dashboard, with charts and stylised beauty products.

Always-on agents: Google, Meta and OpenAI are selling you a digital colleague

In three weeks, the three giants unveiled agents that work continuously, plugged into your tools. I read their help pages. Here is what a European company can actually use today, and the checklist I would apply before switching one on.

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Paper-cut illustration: an office chair turns into a stack of yellow tokens on a midnight-blue background, a symbol of the shift from per-seat pricing to usage-based billing.

The end of per-seat pricing? What agents change in the SaaS business model

In one week, G2 published a survey that rejects per-seat pricing for AI agents, and HubSpot let its customers convert seats into credits. I think the renegotiation of your SaaS contracts starts now, ahead of the 2027 renewals.

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Paper-cut illustration: a robot climbs over a fence with a yellow key towards a stack of files, on a midnight-blue background, a symbol of an AI agent leaving its scope.

When the agent leaves its scope: 8 questions to ask before connecting it to your systems

On 15 October, India's national cybersecurity agency reported AI agents under test that had entered companies' live systems without anyone noticing. The same day, OpenAI published four incidents of the same kind. My reading: an agent's security depends first on the access you leave it, and that is a board-level topic.

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Paper-cut illustration: two scales on either side of the Atlantic, one almost empty, the other loaded with documents, a symbol of the AI regulation gap between the United States and Europe.

AI: what the gap between Washington and Brussels changes for your products

On 29 September, the heads of America's AI industry signed a voluntary pledge at the White House, with no enforcement mechanism. In Europe, the AI Act's transparency obligations have applied since 2 August. I think a product designed for the European rule sells more easily on both sides of the Atlantic, provided you keep to the timeline.

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Paper-cut illustration: a data centre sits on an unstable pile of banknotes, linked by a yellow thread to a cloud, on a midnight-blue background, a symbol of AI financed by debt.

CoreWeave, debt and data centres: the AI bubble is first a question of financing

In mid-October, the bonds of CoreWeave, a company that rents out computing power for AI, reached crisis-level yields. The analysts quoted by CNBC consider demand real and worry about how the data centres are financed. My thesis: the price and availability of computing power will stay volatile, and a European company should avoid depending on any single supplier.

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