agentic ai

Samsung SDS used CES 2026 to stake a clear claim: the next battleground for corporate competitiveness will be agentic AI — autonomous, task-oriented software agents that can reason, act and coordinate across enterprise systems without constant human direction. Background / Overview Samsung SDS...

A thirty‑second clip went viral over the weekend because it did something Microsoft’s PR can’t fix: it made what the company calls “Copilot” look both useless and intrusive at the same time. In the video, programmer Ryan Fleury follows a settings search suggestion in Windows 11 — a brightly lit...

Lenovo and Motorola today unveiled Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant that the companies say will begin rolling out on select Lenovo PCs in Q1 2026 and appear on Motorola phones and proof‑of‑concept wearables later in the year, positioning Qira as a “Personal Ambient Intelligence...

The coming year will not be quiet for end‑user IT: agentic AI, baked‑in browser intelligence, and new classes of endpoint controls will reshape how knowledge workers interact with applications, how IT governs data, and where security investments land. Background The desktop as a passive...

Microsoft’s purchase of Osmos represents a fast-moving bet that agentic AI—software agents that act autonomously to complete multistep tasks—will become a foundational layer of enterprise data platforms rather than a niche add‑on. The deal folds Osmos’s agentic data‑engineering technology...

The calendar year 2025 will be read in hindsight as the year artificial intelligence stopped being an experiment and became an industrial force — reshaping markets, national policy, energy systems, corporate headcounts, and intimate human relationships in ways few expected and many are still...

The messy truth about AI at work in 2026 is simple: having more models, agents, and extensions on your browser does not automatically make your day easier. The real wins come from designing a clear outcome, mapping the steps to get there, and orchestrating a small set of AI tools as reliable...

The year 2025 was the moment artificial intelligence stopped being a mostly academic curiosity and became an industrial force that reshaped national policy, energy grids, markets and everyday work — and the reverberations will define the debates and decisions of 2026 and beyond. Background By...

2025 closed as the year artificial intelligence stopped being a promising feature and became a piece of industrial infrastructure that reshaped power grids, corporate budgets, national security planning, and everyday Windows‑centric IT operations. This shift was not a single event but a string...

Sompo’s expanded use of AI agents marks one of the most ambitious enterprise deployments in insurance this year — a multi-year deepening of Palantir’s Foundry that pushes autonomous decisioning into underwriting, claims triage and fraud detection while promising measurable financial gains, but...

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...