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Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude - CNET
Adobe is moving beyond generative fill to agentic workflows. This signals how enterprise creative software is being rebuilt around AI agents, not just prompts. For founders building AI tools, it shows the fastest path to adoption is embedding agents into existing workflows users already pay for.
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