AI agents in the tools you already use, and new rules for AI at work

Atlassian and OpenAI expanded their partnership so that OpenAI's frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra, power agents across Atlassian's platform and Rovo. Rovo draws on Atlassian's Teamwork Graph, which links Jira tickets, Confluence pages, people and decisions. More than 3,000 Atlassian developers use Codex, and the two companies are exploring ways to assign Jira work to AI agents and review the results.

SAP made its Autonomous Enterprise architecture generally available and introduced Joule Work and Joule Desktop, with updated agents for finance, supply chain, spending, workforce and customer experience. The capabilities roll out through October. SAP will charge in AI units, a usage-based model where each agent task uses up units, rather than a flat subscription alone.

French lab Mistral opened public preview access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable model so far, on its cloud platform. It has about 1 trillion parameters, of which only 49 billion are active when it runs, for efficiency, and it can answer in more than 160 languages. Mistral said it will release the model's weights later this month.

The Commerce Department said the U.S. trade deficit was $105.6 billion in August, the largest since March 2025, when it was $132.98 billion. Economists polled by Dow Jones had expected $102 billion.

Private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and McKesson signed an agreement to buy home infusion provider Option Care Health for $32.05 a share in cash, an enterprise value of about $5.8 billion. CD&R will hold a majority stake and McKesson a minority one, and Option Care will keep its own management team.

Paramount Skydance closed its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, ending a year-long takeover fight. The combined company is named Skydance Corp. and brings the Paramount and Warner Bros. studios together with control of about a third of basic cable programming.