The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents

2026 · Indian Edition

Also known as Agentic AI.

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
Analyst Insights
Thrive unveils governed AI workspace & adoption model
Gartner · Agentic AI · UC
Yesterday
Dataiku unveils orchestration-focused AI Success platform
Gartner · Agentic AI · Data Analytics
2 days ago
Teradata adds agentic, multimodal AI to vector store
Gartner · Agentic AI · Hybrid Cloud
3 days ago
CData boosts Connect AI with secure MCP agent tools
Gartner · Agentic AI · Virtualisation
3 days ago
AI agents and enterprise transformation: Turning hype into measurable value in 2026
Gartner · Agentic AI · Data Protection
Last week
Expert columns
Introducing the first Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust
By Judson Althoff of Microsoft Commercial Business
Yesterday
Why the next endpoint and SASE disruption will not come from a security vendor
By Chandrodaya Prasad of SonicWall
2 days ago
Upgrade advantage: More value, less effort for partners, MSPs & MSSPs
By Sarah Choi and Mahpara Banday of SonicWall
3 days ago
How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales
By Laura Drabik of Guidewire
3 days ago
Female representation in AI is a win-win situation for businesses
By Emma Irwin of Dataiku
Last week
Agentic AI and the question of equitable intelligence
By Marlene Wolfgruber of ABBYY
Last week
Safe AI needs all voices: Celebrating the women who help drive CSA's AI safety initiative
By Illena Armstrong of Cloud Security Alliance
Last week
AI-era contact centres become strategic CX data hubs
By Martyn Riddle of Verint APAC
Last week
Designing equal opportunity in AI and adtech leadership
By Kathy Lu of Nexxen
Last week
The AI infrastructure trap: Why your 'AI-ready' project may already be obsolete
By Fabio Straessle of G+D Netcetera
Last week
How insurance providers are making their customer data AI ready
By Helen Richardson of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Insurance
Last month
AI is rewriting the B2B marketing playbook for CIOs, CTOs & CMOS
By James Foote of Polaris
Last month
Beyond technology: How leadership drives contact centre performance
By Ed Creasey of Calabrio
Last month
2026 begins: Crypto's heavyweight rumble - round by round
By Easy Crypto
Last month
Stop burning money on manual marketing tasks
By Adrian Randall of Arcadian Digital
Last month
Interviews
Confluent says data streaming will enable faster, better decisions
Discussing Business Intelligence
Yesterday
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
Discussing Big Data
2 days ago
Why the all-AI social network looks more fad than legacy
Discussing Cloud Services
Last month
Exclusive: Celonis' Pascal Coubard shares APAC ambitions and growth
Discussing Procurement
Thu, 11th Dec 2025
Exclusive: Oracle's marketplace passes 400 Fusion AI agents
Discussing Unified Communications
Tue, 11th Nov 2025
Recent news
Rackspace & Uniphore target USD $100m regulated AI push
About Cloud Services
Today
Nvidia pushes Jetson as edge hub for open AI models
About Robotics
Today
Nvidia unveils data-centre RTX servers for game dev
About Gaming
Today
IBM warns AI & quantum threats will reshape cybercrime
About Trends & Predictions
Today
DevRev expands Computer AI agent platform in India
About Customer Relationship Management
Today
Manulife picks Akka to power enterprise agentic AI
About Cloud Services
Today
Equinix unveils global distributed AI hub & fabric
About Colocation
Today
Conga launches AiMe AI agents for end-to-end deal flows
About Customer Relationship Management
Today
Virtana launches system-wide observability for AI chaos
About Virtualisation
Today
Mastercard unveils AI 'Virtual C-Suite' for small firms
About Business Intelligence
Today
NTT DATA unveils global Nvidia-powered AI factories
About IT services
Yesterday
Tricentis unveils agentic AI Workspace for safer releases
About Business Continuity
Yesterday
Tricentis unveils AI Workspace for agentic quality testing
About Software engineering
Yesterday
RingCentral unveils AIR Pro no-code AI contact agents
About Cloud Services
Yesterday
AI leaders pull ahead as laggards face analytics latency
About Business Intelligence
Yesterday
Job moves
Quiq hires Jen Grant as CMO to drive scaled AI agents
Move at Google
Yesterday
KnowBe4 appoints Kelly Morgan as Chief Customer Officer
Move at DocuSign
Last month
KnowBe4 appoints Yuneeb Khan as Chief Financial Officer
Move at PwC
Last month
DryRun Security adds Andrew Peterson to drive AI shift
Move at Palo Alto Networks
Last month
NeuBird AI names Venkat Ramakrishnan president & COO
Move at Cisco
Last month
Zendesk names Craig Flower COO to drive AI first shift
Move at HP
Last month
Okta names Dan Mountstephen to lead APJ identity push
Move at Centrify
Last month
KnowBe4 marks AIDA decade & names AI innovation VP
Move at KnowBe4
Fri, 30th Jan 2026
INVNT names James Nicholas Kinney Global Chief AI Officer
Move at Microsoft
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
Ping Identity names Adnan Chaudhry Chief Revenue Officer
Move at Salesforce
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
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