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
Qualtrics named Leader in 2026 Gartner VoC Quadrant
Gartner · Agentic AI · UC
2 days ago
Qualtrics named Leader in Gartner Voice of Customer
Gartner · Agentic AI · UC
2 days ago
Constructor posts surge on AI retail search momentum
Gartner · Agentic AI · Hyperscale
3 days ago
Datarails unveils FinanceOS to power AI-driven finance
Gartner · Agentic AI · MarTech
3 days ago
Gartner tips AI to upend work tools, hiring & data
Gartner · Agentic AI · Data Analytics
4 days ago
Expert columns
Introducing the first Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust
By Judson Althoff of Microsoft Commercial Business
5 days ago
Why the next endpoint and SASE disruption will not come from a security vendor
By Chandrodaya Prasad of SonicWall
5 days ago
Upgrade advantage: More value, less effort for partners, MSPs & MSSPs
By Sarah Choi and Mahpara Banday of SonicWall
6 days ago
How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales
By Laura Drabik of Guidewire
6 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
5 days ago
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
Discussing Big Data
5 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
Sweep wins cybersecurity firms for Salesforce control
About Data Protection
Yesterday
AI agents drive surge in cyber threats & extortion
About Malware
Yesterday
UiPath & Deloitte launch agentic ERP for AI-first ops
About Productivity
Yesterday
Tower raises USD $6.4m to bring AI data and code to production
About Software-as-a-Service
2 days ago
ThoughtSpot unveils Spotter Semantics AI-native layer
About Business Intelligence
2 days ago
Chartis names SAS a leader in AI governance solutions
About Data Protection
2 days ago
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer adopts Legora AI firmwide
About Document Management
2 days ago
Decidr, ICON partner on SAP AI to automate Procure-to-Pay
About IT services
2 days ago
Wonderful raises USD $150m to scale global AI agents
About Customer service
2 days ago
Gumloop raises USD $50m to scale workplace AI agents
About Software-as-a-Service
2 days ago
F5 boosts AI app security with zero trust, post-quantum
About Software Updates
3 days ago
Sinch unveils Voice Relay to power AI-driven calls
About Unified Communications
3 days ago
OpenAI buys Promptfoo to bolster Frontier AI security
About Data Protection
3 days ago
Thenvoi unveils shared mesh to connect coding agents
About Software engineering
3 days ago
ConnectWise unit maps IT pay trends, automation push
About IT services
3 days ago
Job moves
Quiq hires Jen Grant as CMO to drive scaled AI agents
Move at Google
5 days ago
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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