The Prompt Economy news and trends

Microsoft Sparks Security Fight Over AI Agents
artificial intelligence // November 24, 2025

The Prompt Economy was visited by some controversy this past week. Microsoft introduced new agentic AI features to Windows 11, which is usually a cause for sustained applause from the developer community. Not this time. The developer community has raised a series of red flags...

AI Agents Are Moving to the Front of the Checkout Line
Artificial Intelligence // October 29, 2025

As shoppers increasingly rely on AI assistants to search, compare and buy, the traditional customer journey is disappearing. Instead of typing into search bars, consumers are talking to trusted, permissioned bots—and those bots are making the buying decisions. This edition of the “Prompt Economy™: When...

The Prompt Economy Has Arrived. Now Comes the Hard Part
artificial intelligence // October 27, 2025

One of the most compelling updates this week came from a Harvard Business Review article “Designing a Successful Agentic AI System.” Its authors argue that agentic AI will only deliver value when companies redesign workflows around outcomes, not tasks, and rethink how humans and intelligent...

Why 30 Million US Consumers No Longer Search.
artificial intelligence // October 22, 2025

For nearly three decades, the internet rewarded people who knew how to find information fast. The pros learned to turn questions into a few notable keywords and cherry-pick through pages of results until they found what they needed. Search became a reflex. Searchers gathered data,...

Interviews & Exclusives
Big Firms Test AI Agents as Internal Teams Race to Build Guardrails

December 01, 2025
The last few Prompt Economy Weekly features have focused on trust and technical security for agentic AI. Seeing as how security is a prerequisite for its consistent usage, that focus was spot-on and will continue to be an issue. But this week was something of a litmus test for the Prompt Economy. It marked the […]

Microsoft Sparks Security Fight Over AI Agents

November 24, 2025
The Prompt Economy was visited by some controversy this past week. Microsoft introduced new agentic AI features to Windows 11, which is usually a cause for sustained applause from the...

The Prompt Economy Has Arrived. Now Comes the Hard Part

October 27, 2025
One of the most compelling updates this week came from a Harvard Business Review article “Designing a Successful Agentic AI System.” Its authors argue that agentic AI will only deliver...

AWS Turns AI Agents Into a Workhorse as Nvidia Sees a Threat

October 13, 2025
It’s hard to get in and out of a conversation with a friend or even take a cursory look at a mainstream news source these days without a reference to...