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IDC survey exposes the enterprise AI-agent governance gap.

IDC research commissioned by Leah finds that production use is accelerating while unsanctioned agents, poor interoperability and contract handoffs remain unresolved.

Anthropic and Accenture: buying AI model assurance.

Anthropic and Accenture are committing at least $2 billion to embedded model evaluation, creating a new supplier-assurance category and a difficult independence question.

Palantir’s UK police pilot ends without a purchase.

Five UK police forces will not take Project Nectar forward. The useful procurement story is what a pilot must prove before technical dependency takes hold.

Tradewinds’ five-minute pitches still need buying evidence.

A faster route to an award still needs a defensible buying decision.

Schneider’s proposed PTC acquisition: procurement dependencies.

Industrial software consolidation reaches the information behind the purchase.

Icertis survey: supplier contract value needs an owner.

A negotiated benefit needs someone to check that it arrives.

SAP and Moody’s bring supplier risk into the workflow.

An external signal needs an internal dependency before it can guide a decision.

SAP Pay brings payment controls into the procurement workflow.

The ERP is moving from recording an obligation to executing payment.

Novartis pilots SAP’s Joule sourcing assistant.

Novartis gives sourcing agents a concrete enterprise test.

Ironclad’s contract AI agents need commercial context.

Past agreements are useful context. They still need an approved interpretation.

SAP adds ORO orchestration: what procurement buyers should check.

ORO’s distribution agreement changes the buying route for orchestration.

OpenAI’s Ironclad benchmark: the procurement acceptance gap.

OpenAI’s Ironclad benchmark makes the case for testing the finished workflow.

Six banks have drafted rules for AI agents that can spend

The principles for trusted agentic commerce offer procurement teams an early control model for identity, authority, data and liability.

JAGGAER bought the evidence behind the direct-material negotiation

The completed Ivoflow acquisition connects part-level cost and market intelligence with JAGGAER’s source-to-pay execution.

There are 122 procurement technology vendors in one assessment

Hackett’s latest SolutionMap shows why feature-led procurement-tech selection is becoming impossible, especially as AI blurs established categories.

Zip is trying to make procurement the home of third-party risk

Zip has expanded Risk Orchestration into a full TPRM offering while adding sourcing and purchase-order agents, external data partnerships and a marketplace.

OpenAI just moved underneath the CLM market

Astra for Law gives legal teams and technology vendors a specialist foundation model, legal search and contract-analysis tooling. CLM vendors now need to prove what they add above the model layer.

Your IT reseller just became a global platform. Did your leverage change?

Softcat’s agreement to acquire GDT expands its international reach, but customers should reassess concentration, incentives and exit rights.

Direct procurement’s next data platform starts with a drawing

CADDi’s $114 million funding round is a bet that manufacturing decisions need technical context, not another view of invoice spend.

Your AI supplier has a misbehaviour register. Can you see it?

OpenAI’s new disclosure framework exposes a gap in enterprise contracts: model misbehaviour may be neither a data breach nor an outage.

The first reported AI-agent data breach changes TPRM

Spain’s first reported breach allegedly executed by an autonomous AI agent shows why supplier-risk programmes must operate at machine speed.

Procurement orchestration has escaped the PowerPoint. But it still isn’t autonomous procurement

ORO Labs’ rapid growth supports procurement orchestration as a serious category. Buyers still need to distinguish intake, orchestration, and autonomous execution.

A procurement dashboard that can’t act is becoming legacy

Procol has added predictive and multi-agent capabilities to its spend intelligence platform. The launch points towards a future where procurement analytics is judged by the action it produces.

CLM is trying to become the operating system for commercial work

Leah is taking its Agentic OS onto Oracle Cloud with PwC supporting implementation. The announcement says more about the future shape of CLM than another contract-review feature.

AI services pricing is about to break the day-rate model

Globant’s growing AI services business suggests services pricing could move from people and hours to outputs and consumption.