How AI for the enterprise is evolving, from owning a task to owning an outcome: 1. Assistant: handles one task in seconds, like sending a follow-up email. Companies pay for it out of their software budget. 2. Agent: handles one interaction in minutes, like a customer's refund call. It takes on work people used to do, so it gets paid for out of the labor budget. 3. Long-running agent: works toward a goal for weeks or months, like getting an injured client the biggest settlement possible.…