Workday Launches 'Autopilot' AI Agents, Enters Collaboration With Anthropic for HR, Finance

10:22 AM EDT, 10/13/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Workday (WDAY) said Tuesday it launched "autopilot" AI agents to handle routine recruiting, payroll, accounting, and technology support tasks, and is collaborating with Amazon-backed (AMZN) Anthropic for HR and finance workflows. The AI agents follow each customer's own policies, permissions, and sign-off procedures, and employees set which tasks run alone and which need human review, the company said. In the collaboration with Anthropic, users can handle tasks either in Workday's Sana assistant or Anthropic's Claude, with the two systems able to exchange information through an open standard called Model Context Protocol. Financial terms of the collaboration were not disclosed. Workday shares were 0.8% lower in Tuesday trading. Price: 186.82, Change: -1.43, Percent Change: -0.76