The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated American edition of IndustrialDay 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
Most firms hit by AI agent security incidents, report
The findings suggest companies are exposing email and payment systems to software agents faster than they can secure them, widening phishing risk.
Gong adds ex-Monday.com executives to senior leadership
The appointments deepen Gong's push into AI for sales teams, with security and governance becoming more central as it serves more than 5,000 customers.
NVIDIA unveils AI push for Europe at Berlin keynote
Europe's AI buildout is set for a boost as NVIDIA commits nearly USD $10 billion and promises faster, safer data centre deployment.
Thought Industries launches Lens AI knowledge platform
Enterprises could cut misleading AI replies as the beta tool checks conflicting product and customer knowledge before answers reach users.
AI agents surge on protected transactions, Arkose says
Banks and retailers are increasingly seeing genuine AI agents on logins and checkouts, forcing firms to separate customer help from fraud.
AWS launches Lambda Web Functions for standard web apps
Developers can now deploy Express and Next.js sites on Lambda without rewrites, with billing tied to CPU time and support for 128 concurrent requests.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
Gartner flags 10 tech trends for 2027 as AI governance
Gigamon unveils tools to track shadow AI across networks
Ping Identity named leader in Gartner's new CIAM report
Yooz launches agentic AI for non-PO invoice coding
Akeneo named Gartner leader in product data management
Featured News
Oracle Fusion AI: Autonomy is earned, one outcome at a time
Oracle's Kaushal Kurapati says the pace of AI development is surpising even to those driving it.
Oracle brings Fusion Claw to agentic supply chain management
Oracle is aiming to help manufacturers cut tariff exposure and freight costs with new agentic supply chain apps that simulate scarce resources and margins.
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.
Expert Columns
AI agents will multiply your inference bill. Is your enterprise ready?
Security Learnings from the Open Source Front Line
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
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
BeyondTrust launches AI agent security with new research
The new controls aim to curb AI agents' machine-speed access to company systems as research shows they can trigger thousands of endpoint actions.
AppViewX expands Quantum Trust Hub for quantum migration
Security teams gain a standalone tool to map quantum-era cryptographic exposure across certificates, keys and software before 2030 deadlines bite.
ThreatLocker launches Zero Trust AI Control for agents
Security teams can now limit what autonomous agents access, run and connect to as businesses widen AI use across core operations.
Marble raises USD $3.75 million to automate office work
The funding will help the Munich startup expand engineering and push into the US as it targets repetitive office tasks worth automating.
CrowdStrike to buy Fiddler AI & Dreadnode in AI push
The moves underline how security vendors are racing to control AI agents as businesses widen their use of automated software across operations.
Lumen & Microsoft expand AI network tie-up for Azure
Enterprises grappling with AI rollouts should get simpler access to Azure-linked networking as the pair widen support across hybrid and multi-cloud estates.
ThreatLocker launches control for corporate AI agents
Security teams can now block AI agents from accessing sensitive systems, as businesses turn them loose on day-to-day tasks inside corporate networks.
Snowflake launches AI control tools for business definitions
The new features let enterprises audit AI agents' access, spending and definitions, as businesses struggle with inconsistent context across systems.
Snowflake adds always-on AI bots for CoCo & CoWork
The update widens enterprise access to background automation, with recurring AI tasks now able to run continuously and seek approval only when needed.
Snowflake launches autonomous data tools & live analytics
Businesses using AI agents can now automate pipeline checks and query live data in one governed Snowflake platform, cutting manual work.
Google Cloud adds Claude models to Antigravity tools
Google Cloud users can now tap Anthropic's Claude models in Antigravity for coding tasks, broadening model choice across its AI tools.
ArmourCode launches Zero to cut vulnerability backlogs
ArmourCode says the agent-based tool can shrink thousands of alerts into fewer verified fixes, easing pressure on security teams.
Google launches Gemini training bundles for finance, law
Free courses on Google Skills aim to help finance and legal staff use Gemini for tasks from bond issuance to contract review.
Google launches Gemini for government services preview
Many agencies are still stuck in pilots, as Google's new government AI tools aim to tackle security, integration and classified search needs.
Most financial firms expect AI-led operations within years
Only 22% can see what AI agents are doing, as most banks and insurers race towards AI-led operations and lose sight of productivity gains.
Cybercriminals hijack LLM access, racking up bills
Victims can face six-figure charges in hours as stolen credentials let attackers run large language models on company accounts.
CrowdStrike & Dell launch AI Factory security package
The package aims to help enterprises secure AI systems from infrastructure to agents as they rush to deploy production workloads.
Palo Alto Networks launches unified SaaS cloud security
Security teams may gain a clearer picture of connected threats as Palo Alto Networks folds SaaS, cloud, identity and AI risks into one platform.
Dayforce launches agentic HCM platform with native AI
Customers can now automate more HR tasks as Dayforce adds native AI tools designed to govern approvals, security and auditability across its platform.
Oracle NetSuite unveils new AI tools for cloud ERP
Businesses could automate more finance and operations work as NetSuite adds AI Workspaces, agents and wider access to external models.
Job Moves
Gong adds ex-Monday.com executives to senior leadership
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
