Asana Acquires StackAI to Expand No-Code Agent Capabilities

Cognition, maker of the Devin coding assistant, is generating approximately $900 million in annualized revenue, up more than threefold since the start of 2026, according to previously unreported data. The company is currently raising funds at a valuation around $45 billion and counts BNY, Santander, and Mercedes among its customers. The growth signals that AI application startups can sustain momentum despite competition from larger players like Anthropic and OpenAI.

As enterprises deploy AI agents with greater autonomy to act across systems without human approval at each step, traditional governance approaches prove inadequate. The article argues that effective control must shift from agent-layer guardrails to the data layer itself, where access policies, masking, and audit trails can enforce rules at the moment agents request data, not after they act.

Visa released an open-source security harness that autonomously detects vulnerabilities, writes fixes, and validates patches before human review, with the full automated pipeline running by default. The tool grew from Visa's work with Anthropic on adversarial testing and now includes expanded remediation and validation stages. The release arrives amid debate over whether autonomous code modification should be the default behavior, with security experts arguing for authorization gates.

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, a partnership that embeds Salesforce's CRM directly into Claude through a CoWork plugin with 37 pre-built sales skills. The plugin lets users query, update, and act on live CRM data without opening Salesforce's interface, with pilot availability now and open beta in September. The move reflects a strategic bet that enterprise software's future may not require traditional application interfaces.