February 28, 2026

Google's Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents

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For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation that barely justifies the "agent" label. Too much, and you get the ki...