Topic: Agentic AI

  • AI Shopping Assistants: 60% of Consumers Plan to Adopt in 2024

    AI Shopping Assistants: 60% of Consumers Plan to Adopt in 2024

    The retail sector is rapidly adopting AI shopping assistants, with 60% of consumers planning to use them within the next year, changing how products are discovered and purchased. Retailers face both opportunities and risks, as AI systems may shift loyalty from brands to algorithmic logic, with su...

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  • Avoid These 6 Common Agentic AI Mistakes

    Avoid These 6 Common Agentic AI Mistakes

    Organizations face challenges with agentic AI due to common pitfalls like vendor rebranding of basic automation as AI, which can be identified by demanding evidence of adaptive, goal-oriented decision-making during testing. Key risks include data-set creep, where AI accesses unauthorized informat...

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  • Top 3 Companies for Deploying Agentic AI

    Top 3 Companies for Deploying Agentic AI

    Microsoft leads the agentic AI market with its Copilot platform, integrated into Microsoft 365 and Azure, enhancing enterprise productivity through automation and generative models. Nvidia holds a key position by providing essential GPU hardware for training AI models, supporting innovation acros...

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  • Agentic AI: Understanding the Rise of Autonomous Intelligence

    Agentic AI: Understanding the Rise of Autonomous Intelligence

    https://youtu.be/CBc-8Mjz3I0?si=9oOxt30bH_y6y-ww I've spent months researching and witnessing the emergence of what experts call "Agentic AI," and I can't shake the feeling that we're standing at the edge of something extraordinary.…

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  • Your AI Agents Are Zero Trust's Biggest Blind Spot

    Your AI Agents Are Zero Trust's Biggest Blind Spot

    The autonomy of AI agents introduces security vulnerabilities in Zero Trust architectures by bypassing continuous verification requirements through inherited or poorly managed credentials. Organizations must adopt the NIST AI Risk Management Framework with a focus on identity governance, ensuring...

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  • Pax8 Launches Game-Changing Agent Store

    Pax8 Launches Game-Changing Agent Store

    Pax8 has launched the Pax8 Agent Store, an agentic AI platform that helps managed service providers (MSPs) accelerate growth, create new revenue streams, and deliver AI solutions to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The platform offers plug-and-play, recurring revenue products tailored to MS...

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  • The Future of Banking: Agentic AI's Transformative Role

    The Future of Banking: Agentic AI's Transformative Role

    The adoption of new technologies, especially agentic AI, is critical for financial institutions to remain competitive and reshape the future of work in banking. A majority of banking executives are already using agentic AI, with significant benefits reported in areas like fraud detection, securit...

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  • Your Central Hub for All Coding Agents

    Your Central Hub for All Coding Agents

    GitHub has launched Agent HQ, a centralized platform for managing all coding agents, providing traceability and governance for AI-generated code and reasoning. The platform integrates agent orchestration into GitHub Flow, featuring Mission Control for real-time oversight and enabling collaboratio...

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  • Forrester: AI-Powered Data Breach Coming in 2026

    Forrester: AI-Powered Data Breach Coming in 2026

    Forrester predicts a major data breach caused by autonomous AI systems will occur and become public next year, leading to employee terminations and highlighting corporate vulnerabilities. Generative AI tools have already been linked to security incidents, and without proper safeguards, autonomous...

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  • AI Budgets Soar, But Data Readiness Lags: Qlik 2025 Study

    AI Budgets Soar, But Data Readiness Lags: Qlik 2025 Study

    A major gap exists between financial investment and practical implementation of Agentic AI in corporations, primarily due to foundational data challenges like quality, accessibility, and integration. While 97% of organizations have budgeted for Agentic AI and 69% have a defined strategy, only 19%...

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  • Agentic AI: The Next Big Shift in CX Strategy

    Agentic AI: The Next Big Shift in CX Strategy

    Agentic AI enables businesses to deliver faster, personalized customer interactions through autonomous systems, with significant market growth and financial returns projected. It achieves personalization by anticipating customer needs and offering proactive solutions, such as data limit alerts or...

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  • AI Agents on Your Team: The Unseen Security Risks

    AI Agents on Your Team: The Unseen Security Risks

    AI agents are evolving into autonomous systems that perform complex tasks like incident resolution and system management, introducing significant security challenges alongside efficiency gains. These autonomous agents differ from traditional tools by reasoning, adapting strategies, and accessing ...

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  • Amadeus Hackathon: Boosting Travel Innovation with AI

    Amadeus Hackathon: Boosting Travel Innovation with AI

    Asia Pacific travel companies collaborated in a hackathon to revolutionize travel using AI, integrating Amadeus Self-Service APIs with Google Cloud's tools like Gemini Models and Vertex AI to enhance travel shopping and reservations. Participants developed innovative AI solutions, including tools...

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  • Hush Security Launches to Replace Legacy Vaults with Secretless Access

    Hush Security Launches to Replace Legacy Vaults with Secretless Access

    Hush Security has raised $11 million in seed funding to advance its policy-driven, just-in-time access model for machine-to-machine communication, replacing traditional vaults and static secrets. The company's approach provides real-time visibility, posture analysis, and prevention, addressing th...

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  • Gigamon Insights: AI-Powered Threat Detection & Compliance

    Gigamon Insights: AI-Powered Threat Detection & Compliance

    Gigamon Insights is an AI-driven tool that uses network telemetry to provide real-time threat detection, performance resolution, and compliance support in hybrid cloud environments. It integrates with platforms like Elastic and AWS, enabling analysts to query metadata for actionable insights dire...

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  • NiCE Acquires Cognigy: AI-First Shift in Customer Service

    NiCE Acquires Cognigy: AI-First Shift in Customer Service

    NiCE is acquiring conversational AI leader Cognigy for $955 million, merging Cognigy's automation with NiCE's CXone platform to lead AI-driven customer experience solutions. The deal highlights industry trends where AI enhances customer service by handling routine tasks, with Cognigy's agentic AI...

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  • Agentic AI: Revolutionizing Business Strategy Fundamentals

    Agentic AI: Revolutionizing Business Strategy Fundamentals

    Agentic AI represents a significant advancement in business efficiency, autonomously handling complex tasks by interpreting context and making decisions, unlike traditional automation. Successful adoption of agentic AI requires overcoming challenges like legacy systems and organizational resistan...

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  • Is Your Security Ready for Self-Thinking AI?

    Is Your Security Ready for Self-Thinking AI?

    Autonomous AI systems are transforming cybersecurity by introducing adaptive, human-like behaviors that challenge traditional identity and access management frameworks. Agentic AI creates new vulnerabilities, such as privilege escalation and authentication bypass, requiring proactive strategies l...

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  • CISO Guide: Essential Insights on Agentic AI

    CISO Guide: Essential Insights on Agentic AI

    Agentic AI is revolutionizing cybersecurity by autonomously making decisions and taking actions, surpassing traditional generative AI in managing complex threats. Current deployments show 15% of enterprise cybersecurity uses involve agentic AI, with capabilities like real-time anomaly detection a...

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  • Unlock Clinician Expertise with Agentic AI

    Unlock Clinician Expertise with Agentic AI

    Modern ambient AI assistants automate medical documentation by recording and summarizing patient visits in real time, allowing physicians to focus fully on patient care. These systems enhance patient interactions by enabling better eye contact and clearer communication, while also handling tasks ...

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  • IFS Loops: Deploy Agentic AI Digital Workers to Accelerate Operations

    IFS Loops: Deploy Agentic AI Digital Workers to Accelerate Operations

    IFS has expanded its Loops platform with 10 Digital Workers featuring 50 agentic skills to automate operational tasks, with plans to reach 100 skills by December 2025 across various industries. These Digital Workers handle complex workflows autonomously, integrating with enterprise systems to pro...

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  • Cloudwerx Names Brendan Connolly COO and AI Lead, Reuniting Cloud Sherpas Alumni

    Cloudwerx Names Brendan Connolly COO and AI Lead, Reuniting Cloud Sherpas Alumni

    Cloudwerx has appointed Brendan Connolly as COO and head of its data and agentic AI division, focusing on scaling AI offerings and enhancing delivery methods across platforms like Salesforce. The company has introduced innovative frameworks, including Success Plans with fixed-price Delivery Units...

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  • Serval Secures $47M to Power AI Agents for IT Service

    Serval Secures $47M to Power AI Agents for IT Service

    Serval raised $47 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures to advance its agentic AI systems for IT service automation, with backing from firms like First Round and General Catalyst and clients including Perplexity and Together AI. The company uses two distinct AI agents: one autonomo...

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  • Dynatrace & ServiceNow: Powering Autonomous IT Operations

    Dynatrace & ServiceNow: Powering Autonomous IT Operations

    Dynatrace and ServiceNow have formed a strategic partnership to merge advanced observability with intelligent automation, aiming to empower autonomous IT operations and enhance efficiency for enterprise clients. The collaboration combines Dynatrace's AI capabilities for proactive analysis and aut...

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  • Salesforce's AI Alliances: What It Means for You

    Salesforce's AI Alliances: What It Means for You

    Salesforce is advancing its position in agentic AI with the launch of Agentforce 360, recognizing the need for partnerships with major platforms like Google, OpenAI, and AWS to create a unified enterprise experience. New integrations with OpenAI enable direct access to Salesforce data and tools w...

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  • How Autonomous Businesses Thrive by Connecting Globally

    How Autonomous Businesses Thrive by Connecting Globally

    Autonomous businesses operate with an outside-in design, prioritizing environmental sensing and response over internal optimization, fundamentally changing their operational dynamics. Unlike traditional systems that passively process inputs, autonomous entities proactively gather environmental in...

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  • Equinix Launches AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Business Innovation

    Equinix Launches AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Business Innovation

    Equinix introduced a new Distributed AI infrastructure suite, including a global AI-ready backbone, a worldwide AI Solutions Lab, and an enhanced interconnection service called Fabric Intelligence, to support modern intelligent systems. The infrastructure leverages a programmable, AI-optimized ne...

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  • Notion Agents Automate Tasks & Analyze Data

    Notion Agents Automate Tasks & Analyze Data

    Notion has launched a new AI agent that autonomously generates detailed content like meeting notes and reports by leveraging a user's entire workspace without manual input. The agent can create and update pages and databases, integrate with external platforms such as Slack and Gmail, and compile ...

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  • China's DeepSeek Enters AI Agent Race Against OpenAI and Microsoft

    China's DeepSeek Enters AI Agent Race Against OpenAI and Microsoft

    DeepSeek plans to launch an advanced AI agent called R2 by late 2025, positioning it as a major competitor to firms like OpenAI and Microsoft in the global AI landscape. The R2 model builds on the success of R1, which matched or exceeded U.S. competitors' performance at a lower cost, and focuses ...

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  • Master the Art of Logging Off: A Simple Guide

    Master the Art of Logging Off: A Simple Guide

    Digital saturation makes mastering the art of logging off an essential skill, as constant connectivity and authentication demands often deepen our engagement instead of simplifying life. AI is predicted to transform or replace smartphones, enabling more direct, fluid interactions with technology ...

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  • Tech Trends to Watch Beyond AI, per McKinsey

    Tech Trends to Watch Beyond AI, per McKinsey

    The technology landscape includes diverse advancements like quantum computing and bioengineering, reshaping industries beyond just AI, as highlighted in McKinsey’s report. Agentic AI and specialized semiconductors (e.g., GPUs) are driving innovation, with a 985% surge in AI-related job postings a...

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  • ChatGPT's AI Agent Now Browses Web & Makes PowerPoint Slides

    ChatGPT's AI Agent Now Browses Web & Makes PowerPoint Slides

    OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT to an autonomous task-completing agent, enabling it to browse the web, generate documents, and execute multi-step workflows within a secure virtual environment. The AI can handle tasks like creating presentations or planning travel itineraries but requires user approva...

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  • 8 Key Questions Revealing NVIDIA's Vision for AI's Future

    8 Key Questions Revealing NVIDIA's Vision for AI's Future

    This FAQ aims to provide a deeper understanding of NVIDIA's vision for the future, as outlined by the company's CEO, Jensen Huang, during his keynote speech at the NVIDIA GTC 2025 conference.

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  • Leadership Paralysis: The Crisis Crippling Australian Businesses

    Leadership Paralysis: The Crisis Crippling Australian Businesses

    A leadership crisis in Australian businesses is hindering AI adoption, with 84% of office workers using AI but lacking strategic direction, governance, and guardrails from executives. There is a significant AI trust gap and an "AI Acceleration Gap," with only 13% of organizations considered "AI L...

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  • AI to Resolve Half of Service Calls Within 2 Years, Survey Finds

    AI to Resolve Half of Service Calls Within 2 Years, Survey Finds

    Artificial intelligence is projected to handle half of all customer service inquiries within two years, driven by the need for efficiency, cost reduction, and improved user experiences. Despite benefits like reduced costs and faster resolutions, AI adoption faces challenges including security con...

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  • Orchestrating AI for Customer Experience in 2025

    Orchestrating AI for Customer Experience in 2025

    AI integration into customer experience platforms transforms business-customer interactions from transactional to meaningful engagements, fostering lasting loyalty through unified, intelligent systems. Effective customer experience requires seamless orchestration across all business functions, en...

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  • 3 Essential AI Strategies for Business Leaders to Implement Now

    3 Essential AI Strategies for Business Leaders to Implement Now

    Most companies fail to see measurable benefits from AI due to a lack of a clear, actionable strategy, despite increasing pressure to adopt the technology. Organizations with a formal AI strategy are significantly more likely to achieve revenue growth and tangible benefits, yet only a small percen...

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  • Teradata CEO Steve McMillan: Exclusive Interview Update

    Teradata CEO Steve McMillan: Exclusive Interview Update

    Teradata has strengthened its position in the AI market by introducing innovations like the AI Factory and collaborating with clients to develop tailored solutions, such as enhancing fraud detection and customer service. The company addresses growing demand for secure, sovereign, and cost-predict...

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  • UAE Firms Lead EMEA in AI Productivity, 44% Expect ROI in a Year

    UAE Firms Lead EMEA in AI Productivity, 44% Expect ROI in a Year

    UAE businesses are leading the EMEA region in AI-driven productivity gains, with 77% reporting significant operational improvements and 44% expecting ROI within a year. The adoption of AI is shifting from experimentation to full-scale execution, enhancing decision-making, automating tasks, and tr...

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  • Kore.ai Recognized as a Leader in Cognitive Search Platforms

    Kore.ai Recognized as a Leader in Cognitive Search Platforms

    Kore.ai was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cognitive Search Platforms, Q4 2025, achieving top scores in Strategy and Vision, highlighting its role in advancing enterprise AI with contextual and actionable user experiences. The platform's strengths include conversation-first search, advance...

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  • Boomi Named a Leader in Gartner's 2025 API Management Magic Quadrant

    Boomi Named a Leader in Gartner's 2025 API Management Magic Quadrant

    Boomi was named a Leader in the Gartner 2025 Magic Quadrant for API Management, highlighting its strong execution and strategic vision in advancing API innovation for agentic business transformation. The company's rapid rise from a Niche Player to a Leader reflects its evolution and commitment to...

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  • Ex-Apple CEO: Company Faces First Real Rival in Decades

    Ex-Apple CEO: Company Faces First Real Rival in Decades

    John Sculley, former Apple CEO, asserts that Apple faces its first major competitive threat in years from AI advancements, noting that AI has not been a core strength for the company and identifying OpenAI as a key rival. Apple has lagged in the AI sector, lacking consistent product updates and d...

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  • Windows 11 Deeply Integrates AI-Powered Features

    Windows 11 Deeply Integrates AI-Powered Features

    Windows 11 is integrating advanced AI-driven capabilities, focusing on generative and "agentic" AI that can independently perform tasks based on simple instructions, enhancing user interaction with computers. This initiative represents a renewed effort to fulfill the vision of a helpful digital a...

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  • 3 AI Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2026

    3 AI Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2026

    By 2026, AI is shifting from experimental pilots to fully integrated marketing programs, with 60% of teams actively piloting or scaling AI solutions and nearly three-quarters viewing it as critically important for their strategies. Hyper-personalization and generative AI are enabling brands to cr...

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  • The New Industrial Age: Automotive Meets Automation

    The New Industrial Age: Automotive Meets Automation

    The rise of electric vehicles has transformed cars into complex digital platforms, requiring modern factories to adopt intelligent automation to handle thousands of electronic components. The Fifth Industrial Revolution introduces Agentic AI, enabling systems to make independent decisions, self-c...

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  • Flytxt Named a Niche Player in Gartner's AI Magic Quadrant

    Flytxt Named a Niche Player in Gartner's AI Magic Quadrant

    Flytxt has been recognized as a Niche Player in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for AI in CSP operations for the second year, emphasizing its specialized AI solutions for communication service providers and subscription businesses. The company's AI platform, enhanced by the new Niya-X Agentic AI framewo...

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  • Affinda's New AI Platform Makes Document Processing Effortless

    Affinda's New AI Platform Makes Document Processing Effortless

    Affinda's new agentic AI platform automates document workflows with exceptional accuracy, enabling companies to build custom models in minutes rather than months. The platform uses advanced AI with persistent memory to learn instantly from interactions, overcoming the limitations of traditional s...

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  • Scaling Agentic AI: A Healthcare Revolution

    Scaling Agentic AI: A Healthcare Revolution

    Agentic AI in healthcare combines large language models with symbolic systems to enhance decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. A hybrid AI architecture, integrating reinforcement learning and clinical logic, reduces inaccuracies and grounds ou...

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  • Maisa AI Raises $25M to Tackle Enterprise AI's 95% Failure Rate

    Maisa AI Raises $25M to Tackle Enterprise AI's 95% Failure Rate

    95% of enterprise generative AI pilots are failing, prompting a shift toward agentic AI systems that prioritize learning and human supervision for reliable automation. Maisa AI, which recently secured $25 million in seed funding, offers a model-agnostic platform focused on creating transparent, a...

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  • 25% of CFOs' AI Budgets Now Go to Agentic AI

    25% of CFOs' AI Budgets Now Go to Agentic AI

    Financial leaders are prioritizing agentic AI, with 96% of CFOs having aggressive AI adoption plans, up from 3% in 2020, viewing AI as a driver of long-term growth and competitive advantage. Agentic AI, which operates autonomously, accounts for 25% of AI budgets and is projected to unlock $...

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