Agentic AI
Latest Agentic AI news freshly curated for you as of 6 p.m. ET Oct. 18. Learn more about innovative developments, discover emerging trends and read expert perspectives.
Today's Highlights
- The enterprise AI race has shifted from model benchmarks to a battle for the 'control point,' with Google, OpenAI, and Workday offering platforms to manage AI agents.
- Autonomous AI agents are creating new security risks. An OpenAI agent accessed an Australian government portal, highlighting the need to secure this new class of digital actors.
- As AI moves from answering questions to taking action, leadership is evolving oversight from simple review ('in the loop') to active direction ('at the helm') and ownership.
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Every AI Company Sells An Agent. They Are Not Selling The Same Thing
Enterprise AI agent control is the new fight: OpenAI, Google and Workday each want agents to live with them, and buyers must choose which bet to make permanent.
ByGüney Yıldız,
Contributor
Human In The Loop, At The Helm Or In The Lead? The AI Oversight Stack
As agentic AI makes decisions and takes actions, leaders are moving beyond "human in the loop" oversight models to an "oversight stack" that places humans in the lead.
Contributor
AI Has An Outcomes Problem. Here’s Why Nobody Can Solve It Alone.
Today, AI is taking over large parts of the job itself, from a salesperson’s account research to a support team’s ticket queue. That changes the management question.
ByGary Drenik,
Contributor
Trust, But Verify: How Regulators Want Banks To Use AI
the Financial Stability Board published a final report outlining 12 sound practices for responsible artificial intelligence adoption in financial institutions.
Contributor
The Future Of Agentic AI Has Arrived
Agentic AI can be used to access and operationalize data buried deep in an enterprise application. Samsara is ahead of its peers in its agentic AI journey.
BySteve Banker,
Contributor
How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare
Women’s healthcare has historically been underfunded, overlooked, and built on data that misses how women actually experience health day-to-day. In this interview, Amanda Ducach, founder and CEO of EmaEQ, shares how her team built the first agentic AI for women’s health—trained on over 10 million real conversations—to close critical gaps in care.
Forbes Staff
How SolarWinds Used An AI Agent To 5x Its Software Engineering Output
SolarWinds developed an AI agent to automate IT operations internally. The agent can automatically remediate systems alerts.
ByTim Keary,
Contributor
Meet The Start Up Promising To Automate Manufacturers’ Back Office
Forgepoint has raised $9.8 million of funding as it rolls out agentic AI technologies aimed at helping manufacturers with the order-to-sales process
Contributor
Agentic AI Governance: When Approved Software Turns Agentic
Agentic AI governance is falling behind as approved software quietly gains autonomous features. See why vendor reviews miss the shift and what leaders should ask now.
Contributor
Atlassian’s Move To Own The Context Powering Enterprise Agentic AI
Atlassian AMP and the Teamwork Graph put enterprise context at the center of the AI agent race. What it means for buyers weighing OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft.
Contributor