‘No AI Agents are Allowed.’ EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

The report outlines the European Commission’s new ban on AI agents in online meetings, citing security and privacy risks from autonomous behaviors and opaque operations, and references Microsoft Recall as a cautionary example. It also details accelerating industry momentum behind agentic AI—spanning features from desktop control to in-browser automation—across Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, along with standards efforts and partnerships, concluding with forecasts of substantial enterprise adoption by 2028.