Episode Details

Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Okta made Agent SSO generally available, giving AI agents a real identity in the same directory as your employees — with access policies and short-lived tokens instead of the static API key your rev ops admin generated eighteen months ago. Google Cloud took Gemini Enterprise into big law, which is a bigger deal for marketing than it looks: legal is about to get very fluent in AI, and under EU AI Act Article 50 — enforceable since August 2 — the brand that publishes AI media owns the disclosure and the audit, not the model that made it. Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk after twenty-one years. Keenable came out of stealth with $26M to rebuild the web index for agents instead of humans. Claude finally remembers across chat and Cowork. And Anthropic is preparing to pitch investors a $30 trillion market — a labor number, not a software number, and one that reframes every ROI story you tell.

• Okta launches Agent SSO — AI agents get governed identities via Cross App Access — TechNode Global · Okta
• Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal (Cleary, Freshfields, Weil, Williams & Connolly) — Google Cloud · Artificial Lawyer
• Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk September 30 after 21 years, along with SageMaker Ground Truth — CNBC · Quartz
• Keenable exits stealth with $26M led by Accel — a 100-billion-document index and MCP interface built for agents — TechCrunch · SiliconANGLE
• Anthropic unifies Claude memory across chat and Cowork — TechCrunch · Dataconomy
• Anthropic to pitch investors a $30T+ addressable market — The Wall Street Journal, via Tech Startups

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