Agent logins, Uber's 30,000 seats and oil at a six-month high

The company launched 1Password for Agents. When an agent tries to sign in, it sends a unique digital key to 1Password to prove who it is, you get an alert and must confirm, and 1Password then fills in the credentials and signs the agent in. The agent never sees the password. Agents from several AI companies are named as compatible, and 1Password says it is working with others. The article gives no price or general availability.

Uber announced it is rolling out ChatGPT Work, an enterprise AI agent OpenAI introduced in July 2026, to its entire global workforce of about 30,000 people. It first tested it with 1,000 employees, and about 80% of the early users were not engineers, from teams such as finance, operations and product. Uses included analyzing operations data, localizing training materials and building interactive dashboards. Uber did not disclose the cost.

Canva released Canva Craft, its first image generation model. It plans the layout, scale and text first, then generates images up to 2K resolution in 30 aspect ratios. It was trained on human-designed templates such as posters, social posts, menus and presentations rather than photos. All Canva users can reach it from the Dream Lab tab, and it is available through the Canva API. Two cheaper versions, Craftfast and Craft-ultrafast, are described as coming soon.

Microsoft researchers attribute the breach to a China state-aligned group they call Storm-0940. It broke into ConnectWise's cloud backup service and stole application credentials that ConnectWise uses to link to customers' Microsoft environments, letting it sign in as an authorized user and reach email and files. Microsoft says about 2,250 organizations were targeted, at roughly 3,000 sign-in attempts a minute. ConnectWise paused access to its cloud backup system and was working to restore it on Thursday.

American Express said it will cut about 3,500 roles, roughly 5% of its workforce, and took a $336 million restructuring charge. Third-quarter revenue rose 9% to $14.5 billion, below the $14.8 billion analysts expected. Its shares fell 3% on Friday.

Brent crude settled at $116.72 a barrel on Friday, a six-month high, and U.S. crude closed just above $103, as Middle East tensions weighed on supply. United, Delta and American Airlines shares fell as energy costs rose.