agentic ai

AI agents have moved from speculative demos to production-ready automation in record time, and this surge of capability — from Copilot Studio to drag‑and‑drop agent builders — is changing how organizations structure work, risk, and procurement at scale. Background / Overview The last two years...

Microsoft’s prediction that 2026 will be the year “AI becomes a human partner, not just a tool” crystallizes a shift that’s already visible across research labs, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms and healthcare pilots — and it challenges IT professionals, enterprise architects, and...

HCL Technologies has formally joined Microsoft’s Discovery platform, a strategic move that places the Indian engineering and services giant inside a select ecosystem of partners and research institutions aimed at accelerating agentic AI-driven research across chemistry, materials science, drug...

Companies are quietly preparing for what many executives now describe as a planned “realignment” of labour around agentic AI — shifting people out of over-capacity roles and into AI‑adjacent jobs, rather than simply relying on mass layoffs — even as questions persist about the timing, ROI, and...

Charles Lamanna’s blunt framing — “six months, everything changes; six years, the new normal” — crystallizes a tension that has been quietly building inside Microsoft and across enterprise IT: generative AI is no longer content to be an assistant. It wants to act, decide, and execute. That shift...

The calendar year 2025 stands as a turning point for artificial intelligence — a year when models became multimodal thinkers, agents began to act autonomously across real workflows, and robotics and specialised silicon moved from laboratory curiosities toward practical deployment. What started...

OpenText’s short, pointed forecast — that “AI is only as smart as your content” — lands where many enterprise AI conversations are headed: after the initial rush of pilots and point solutions, 2026 will be the year organizations discover that the practical bottleneck to reliable, scalable AI is...

Cognizant’s December 18, 2025 announcement of a multi‑year strategic partnership with Microsoft signals a deliberate escalation from cloud migration and managed services into the industrialization of Copilot, agentic AI, and verticalized, production‑grade AI solutions targeted at Financial...

Cognizant and Microsoft have agreed a multi‑year strategic partnership to “operationalise” AI at scale for global enterprises — co‑building industry‑grade Copilot and agentic AI solutions, co‑selling them worldwide, and embedding Microsoft’s emerging Work IQ, Fabric IQ and Foundry IQ...

Microsoft’s own documentation now warns that the new “agentic” AI features in Windows 11 — the capabilities that let built‑in agents act on a user’s behalf — introduce novel security risks, including the possibility that an agent could be manipulated into exfiltrating data or even downloading...

Cognizant and Microsoft announced a multi‑year strategic expansion of their partnership on December 18, 2025 that commits both companies to co‑build industry‑grade AI solutions, embed agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot capabilities into mission‑critical workflows, and jointly pursue large‑scale...

The Linux Foundation has launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a directed fund that brings three widely used pieces of agent infrastructure—Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose framework and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md—under a single, open-governance umbrella intended to...

Microsoft’s Agentic Launchpad has quietly introduced a concentrated cohort of 13 UK and Ireland-based companies that together map a compelling cross-section of how agentic AI — autonomous, decision-capable software agents — is being productised for enterprise use across identity, scheduling, API...

The Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) consolidates three widely used pieces of agent plumbing—Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose framework and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md—under neutral, open governance in a move that immediately reshapes how developers, platforms...

Cognizant and Microsoft have announced a multi‑year strategic expansion of their partnership to co‑build industry‑grade AI solutions, embed agentic AI and Microsoft Copilot capabilities into mission‑critical workflows, and jointly pursue large-scale deals across financial services, healthcare...

Microsoft’s latest clarification removes a key ambiguity in Windows 11’s emerging “agentic” features: AI agents will not be allowed to rummage through your personal files silently — they must request and be granted explicit permission before accessing the six common “known folders” (Documents...