The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated Indian 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.
Indian AI Agents News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
India leads in passkeys, but phishing & deepfakes rise
Despite leading on passkeys and MFA, Indian firms still face widespread AI phishing and deepfake scams that are undermining daily security practice.
Protectt.ai launches AI security platform for banks
Banks face a bigger security gap between reviews and rapid software releases, as Protectt.ai's platform tests each build before it reaches customers.
Talentica launches DevX AI Pods for product engineering
The service aims to cut errors from AI coding tools by giving engineers and agents shared product context across the full development cycle.
Cygnet.One unveils agentic AI for finance in Mumbai
Banks could speed up lending and fraud checks as the firms' AI merges data, documents and records into one contextual report.
Swiggy adopts Snowflake to speed up data workflows
Swiggy's data teams can now run heavy queries far faster as the platform brings marketing, operations and finance onto one governed view.
Pierag merges with SNB to expand India risk advisory
The combined practice moves into India's top 10, as listed companies spend more on audit, controls and governance across sectors.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
NiCE named Gartner CCaaS leader as AI revenue jumps
Broadridge holds third in IDC FinTech Rankings again
Hack The Box launches AI range for enterprise security teams
Fortinet: The AI challenge is visibility and control, not permission
Fastly named Leader in IDC MarketScape WAAP assessment
Featured News
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.
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.
Interview: Cloudera bets on hybrid AI growth in JAPAC
Banks and large enterprises in Asia-Pacific are rethinking cloud-first AI plans as costs, sovereignty and regulation favour hybrid deployments.
Exclusive: DCB Bank balances AI speed with banking risk
Human oversight will stay in place for DCB Bank's highest-risk AI decisions as the lender pushes automation to speed up SME services.
Open source is powering the next generation of frontier AI
Rising inference demand and custom hardware needs are pushing AI infrastructure beyond standard cloud setups, boosting open source tools.
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.
Customers at the centre of Adobe's new AI evangelist role
Adobe is using the post to help customers navigate AI adoption while feeding regional priorities back into its global product strategy.
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.
Check Point CTO on AI's double-edged sword
AI is shrinking the gap between vulnerability disclosure and real-world exploitation to hours, forcing security teams to adapt fast.
Expert Columns
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
AI in Retail is Only as Good as its Data Foundation
Building Infrastructure for an AI World in Motion
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 data center math has changed
Why trusted 'Customer Context' is critical in the agentic AI era
The Next E-commerce Interface May Not Be a Screen
The autonomous SOC takeover
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
Nutanix expands AI ties with NVIDIA, Supermicro & Netris
The tie-ups are aimed at making it easier for enterprises and cloud providers to run agentic AI in production across mixed infrastructure.
Beyond Now launches Wave AI Framework for telecoms
Telecoms operators could soon let AI agents handle sales and billing tasks across live systems without losing human oversight or control.
Visa, BILL & Billtrust pilot AI agents for invoice payments
The trial could speed supplier payments and cut manual data entry for finance teams, while keeping buyer approval and controls intact.
Sidetrade bookings surge as North America drives growth
North America supplied more than half of quarterly bookings, as Sidetrade's new annual recurring revenue jumped 348% year on year to €2.60 million.
Zoom launches AI tools to link chats, meetings & work
The new tools are meant to cut time lost piecing together decisions across apps, while Zoom also expects to top USD $5 billion in annual revenue this year.
Zoom unveils AI tools linking meetings to business work
Users will be able to search across Zoom and more than 40 apps, while AI agents turn meeting notes into tasks and updates.
Zoom adds unified customer context across CX tools
Businesses using Zoom's CX tools will be able to see a single customer history across channels, cutting repeat explanations and speeding resolutions.
Telstra & Ericsson expand push on autonomous networks
The move aims to tackle a key barrier to telecoms automation, helping operators share trusted network data across vendors and domains more reliably.
Cloudflare says developer base tops 10 million as AI surges
AI is driving a surge in automated traffic, with Cloudflare saying more than half of internet requests were non-human for the first time this year.
Tenable launches open AI partner network for security
Security teams can now connect exposure data with third-party AI tools to triage risks faster without building custom integrations.
Denodo study finds 290% AI data layer return on investment
Enterprises could cut AI operating costs by 68% over three years by routing queries through the layer and filtering data before model ingestion.
Financial firms deploy AI agents unmonitored, study warns
A compliance gap is leaving 22% of financial services firms running AI agents in production without monitoring, a New Relic study warns.
Workday & Anthropic link AI tools for HR & finance
The tie-up will let HR and finance staff move between both systems without resetting permissions, while automating tasks such as compensation reviews and book closes.
Bloomberg launches Enterprise MCP for AI data access
Financial firms could cut manual data-matching work as Bloomberg's new interface gives AI agents governed access to more than 100 million securities.
Zetaris launches AI data harness with SpaceXAI tie-up
The tie-up could help enterprise AI tools reach live data more securely, while Zetaris claims its cloud service may cut total cost of ownership by up to 67%.
AppViewX adds shadow AI agent controls & quantum IDs
Security teams can now spot unsanctioned AI agents, stop them mid-run and issue quantum-resilient identities as usage spreads across enterprises.
Anthropic names Gorilla Logic as Claude services partner
Enterprise users of Claude can now tap Gorilla Logic's services to get the AI model through security reviews and into production systems.
Data issues stall AI projects at most organisations
Most organisations are still losing time on manual data prep and siloed records, with 86% reporting AI disruption in the past year.
Tech Mahindra expands Google Cloud AI training push
With customers moving from AI trials to live deployments, the move will train more than 12,500 associates worldwide to build and govern agents.
Hadrian raises USD $40 million to expand cybersecurity
The fresh capital will fund Hadrian's expansion across EMEA and the US as companies struggle to prioritise exploitable security risks.
