The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated American edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Agents (Agentic AI).
What to know about AI Agents
AI agents represent a transformative area within artificial intelligence, focusing on autonomous or semi-autonomous systems capable of performing complex tasks and making decisions to enhance business operations and personal productivity.
Our recent stories highlight how AI agents are rapidly evolving across sectors—from cybersecurity and data management to customer experience and enterprise automation. Companies are integrating AI agents to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and manage security risks in increasingly sophisticated ways.
By exploring these developments, readers can gain insights into the potential benefits, emerging applications, and challenges associated with AI agent deployment. Whether you're interested in how AI agents enhance software development, automate workflows, or secure enterprise environments, this tag offers a comprehensive look at this dynamic and impactful technology.
American AI Agents News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
TiDB expands cloud platform for enterprise & AI apps
Enterprise users and AI agents will get more control over data and persistence as TiDB adds BYOC, filesystem storage and PostgreSQL support.
Nearly half of firms report rogue AI agent actions
Many firms still lack the controls to trace or halt AI agents, leaving unauthorised API calls and data changes to go unnoticed for hours or days.
Centrical launches AI workforce orchestration system
It is aimed at large employers seeking clearer returns from AI by linking strategy, training and frontline actions across people and agents.
Visa launches tools for supplier analytics, fraud & AI
Better fraud controls and AI-led invoice payments are now available to business customers as Visa expands its commercial payments tools.
CaptivateIQ launches AI agents for sales pay planning
Sales and finance teams could cut plan changes from weeks to minutes as the software moves sensitive compensation tasks into human-approved AI workflows.
SailPoint warns of 40-to-1 gap in AI agent security
Most enterprises still lack controls for AI agents, with SailPoint's survey finding only 2% have tools to govern them.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
Island named only Gartner Customers' Choice for browsers
Provenir named major player in IDC decision intelligence
Saviynt recognised in Gartner PAM report for third year
BeyondTrust named leader in Gartner PAM report again
Nintex launches process tool to tie AI to workflows
Featured News
Oracle's racers: AI removes the grind, increases focus
Oracle Red Bull Racing and SailGP provide insights into AI's relentless incursion into the world of human performance.
Celonis banking head: Banks want proof before scaling agents
Celonis argues frontier AI models are too generic for regulated banking, urging firms to weigh cost, risk and process gains before scaling deployments.
Interview: Cloudera says AI agents reshape zero trust
Enterprises must update identity controls as software agents generate more requests and need tightly time-limited access to sensitive systems.
UiPath: AI agents force rethink of junior tech roles
Routine junior tasks could soon be handed to AI agents, forcing firms to redeploy early-career staff towards strategic work, UiPath's CEO says.
Zscaler takes zero trust beyond the corporate network
Critical infrastructure operators are using cellular links to secure distributed assets as outages and spoofing raise the stakes for resilience.
AI transforming B2B discovery - but human trust endures
AI is changing how B2B buyers make decisions - but an expert warns that it is not a substitute for effective human comms strategies.
Databricks AI helping telcos prevent churn, predict fraud
By linking customer, network and operational data, telcos can spot churn and fraud sooner, while also speeding service and support decisions.
Exclusive: ABBYY says AI build costs will drive buying
Enterprises could cut AI spend by up to 80% by shifting document workflows away from custom builds and into standard platforms.
Exclusive: ABBYY brings zero-shot document AI to Vantage
Enterprises can now extract data from unseen document types without templates, as ABBYY rolls out zero-shot capabilities in Vantage.
Exclusive: Cloudera builds Hadoop-free future platform
Existing customers get six years of support as Cloudera shifts new AI and analytics workloads to a Hadoop-free platform due in November.
Mimecast CEO: Agentic AI threat novel but not entirely new
Hidden AI risks are already widespread in workplaces, with Mimecast saying users are driving shadow tools and most exposure still starts with people.
AI will fade, says Dell Technologies' ephemeral Chief AI Officer
Dell says agentic AI should shift routine tasks below the machine line, freeing staff for expert work while making the role temporary.
Schrodinger's ERP both dead and alive, says Rimini Street
Businesses can avoid costly ERP rip-and-replace projects by layering AI and automation onto existing systems, Rimini Street says.
Autonomous IT boom fuelling LogicMonitor's APAC growth
APAC customers are fuelling LogicMonitor's AI growth, with Australia among the earliest adopters of its Edwin AI platform.
Lumana's focus on vertical applications for AI video surveillance platform
Lumana's Principal Product Manager says its camera-agnostic AI platform is expanding beyond security into retail, healthcare and smart cities.
CrowdStrike report: AI is rewriting rules of cybersecurity
Organisations now have just 48 hours to patch most flaws, as AI helps attackers weaponise vulnerabilities far faster than before.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Expert Columns
It's time to embrace our robot overlords
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
AI in Retail is Only as Good as its Data Foundation
The next eCommerce interface may not be a screen
In the AI era, channel value is being redefined
Stop saying AI hacked the system
The FDE bubble: Silicon Valley's most expensive game of pretend
The autonomous SOC takeover
How security leaders should measure AI SOC performance
Three Industries, One Common Challenge: Getting Data Right Before MDM
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
Oracle to offer Google TPUs on OCI Cloud from 2027
Enterprise users will gain another AI chip choice in OCI from 2027, as Oracle becomes the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to host TPUs.
Intel & Oracle expand Xeon support for AI on cloud
The deal should give enterprise customers more capacity for AI agents and inference without overhauling the business software they already use.
CrowdStrike finds AI agents running autonomous cyberattacks
CrowdStrike found four threat actors using AI agents to automate cyberattacks, compromising healthcare, government and private-sector organisations.
Guidewire launches agentic AI platform for insurers
Insurers could cut rollout delays and tighten controls as the software links AI agents to underwriting and claims workflows already in production.
Cloudera expands AI ecosystem with Neo4j & Cartesia
The additions aim to help enterprises run governed AI and voice workloads across cloud and on-premises systems without losing control of sensitive data.
Akamai launches AI inference & agent sandbox tools
The new services are designed to help enterprises move AI systems into production while keeping latency, data access and agent security under control.
Oracle & OpenAI expand partnership with new business tools
The expanded tie-up gives businesses new AI tools for workflows, app building and security testing, while smaller firms get a free-to-start bundle.
Cover Genius launches AI protection for chat commerce
Consumers using chat-based shopping tools can now be offered protection in-conversation, as Cover Genius targets trust concerns around AI-led purchases.
Sonatype launches Nexus Repository Pro+ for AI screening
It blocks malicious or policy-breaking software and AI artefacts at intake, helping enterprises cut build failures, rework and release risk.
Nvidia's AI tools drive smart city pilots across Europe
Cities from Liverpool to Gothenburg are using Nvidia's AI tools to cut admin time, improve safety and lower operating costs in public services.
Backbase launches Delivery Factory to speed bank projects
The tool aims to cut bank delivery times and reduce rework by linking AI agents to agreed requirements, design and code from the outset.
Fortinet launches AI security service for FortiGate
The cloud-delivered offering adds real-time prompt and response inspection to existing firewalls, helping firms curb shadow AI, data loss and runaway spend.
Neubird launches governed hub for AI production agents
Large organisations can now centralise oversight of AI agents in production as NeuBird's new platform logs approvals, costs and actions.
BT International expands Global Fabric with security options
Multinational firms can now choose from four security providers on BT's network platform as AI traffic raises demands on speed, resilience and control.
Oracle launches agentic AI tools & Deep Trust architecture
Businesses using Oracle Fusion software will get new AI tools that can act on approved tasks, while a trust framework aims to curb data and security risks.
Oracle: Fusion agents stop recommending and start doing
Oracle used its AI World keynote to show Fusion agents that act rather than advise, with Spectrum's AskHR and Burger King Italia as proof points.
AWS reveals Prime Day 2026's vast infrastructure load
The four-day sale pushed AWS to peak at 192 million DynamoDB requests a second and more than 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations daily.
Google expands AI agent kit to five languages
The update could cut engineering overhead for firms mixing web, backend and Android systems, as agents can now interoperate across five languages.
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Sumo Logic previews Root Cause Agent for DevOps teams
The new tool is aimed at cutting incident triage from hours to minutes by analysing logs and metrics for likely causes automatically.
Nvidia backs open standards for AI factory builds
The move could let data centre builders use common blueprints for high-power AI systems, easing deployment of racks up to 250kW.
Job Moves
ThetaRay appoints Laure Richmond as chief financial officer
PolyAI appoints Sunil Shah as Chief Financial Officer
Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first US Marketing Lead
Manifold Security appoints Joe Sullivan to its board
Aerospike names Don Dama as Chief Executive Officer
Forcepoint appoints Vincent Merlin as Marketing Chief
Diversified launches global managed services practice
Zingtree appoints Venkat Iyer as Chief Technology Officer
Ondaro promotes three to vice president in ServiceNow shift
