<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>NOW on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/now/</link><description>Recent content in NOW on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/now/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Agents get governance, wallets, and a $2B invoice</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-19-markets/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-19-markets/</guid><description>Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s multi-billion-dollar annual commitment to run Claude inside Copilot puts a hard price tag on the model-vendor tax, while ServiceNow and Meta fight over who controls the agent layer above it. Cloudflare&amp;rsquo;s OpenAI partnership quietly extends its AI-gateway franchise, and the rest of the day was developer plumbing.</description></item><item><title>The AI buildout moves off the balance sheet</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-06-markets/</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-06-markets/</guid><description>Amazon&amp;rsquo;s $8bn Grace Blackwell sale-and-leaseback and a $30bn financing round at the ChatGPT operator mark the moment AI compute demand migrated from balance sheets to structured finance. Qualcomm&amp;rsquo;s license with its Chinese counterpart is now signed and broader than 5G, ServiceNow put a service desk on the credit card, and Apple&amp;rsquo;s foldable pipeline hit a developer milestone. A quiet day for Alphabet and Microsoft, and we say so plainly.</description></item></channel></rss>