The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated Asian edition of IndustrialDay 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.
Asian AI Agents News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Flexxon wins CyberCall backing for AI Armour gateway
The funding will help the Singapore cybersecurity company build hardware-based protections for AI agents that can otherwise be hijacked at machine speed.
Keeper named in Gartner PAM report for second year
The recognition underscores growing demand for cloud-native tools that can govern human, machine and AI access to sensitive systems.
AvePoint lifts annual recurring revenue outlook on strong Q3
Strong SaaS demand lifted annual recurring revenue 27% to USD $495.1 million in the quarter, prompting AvePoint to raise full-year guidance.
8x8 adds customer context tools across support channels
Customers should no longer need to repeat themselves as 8x8 rolls out shared histories and AI tools across voice, SMS and WhatsApp channels.
Asian travellers embrace AI for planning, not booking
Most Asian travellers now use AI to plan trips, but they still want control when it comes to hotel bookings and payments.
Digift sets controls for AI agents in tokenised finance
Institutions will need tighter checks before letting AI agents trade tokenised assets, as Digift warns that analysis, advice and execution must stay separate.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
Flexxon wins CyberCall backing for AI Armour gateway
Zendesk launches outcome AI platform with new pricing
Zendesk launches Outcome AI Platform with unlimited seats
Four Steps CISOs Can Take To Secure AI-driven Software Development
Keeper named in Gartner PAM report for second year
Featured News
Adobe plans MCP access for AI agents to desktop apps
Creative Cloud users may soon let outside AI agents drive Adobe apps for tasks such as rotoscoping and image hole filling, starting on desktop.
Cisco bets on unified security to counter AI-led threats
Businesses face faster AI-driven attacks as the networking giant folds security, observability and management into one platform.
Zendesk moves beyond ticket closures with outcome-based AI
The new platform charges only when AI resolves an issue, pushing support teams to measure success by customer outcomes rather than ticket counts.
First Digital: Agentic AI to reshape payment infrastructure
Businesses are being urged to build safeguards now as AI agents could soon be transacting more value than humans, First Digital says.
Oracle Fusion AI: Autonomy is earned, one outcome at a time
Oracle's Kaushal Kurapati says the pace of AI development is surpising even to those driving it.
Oracle's racers: AI removes the grind, increases focus
Oracle Red Bull Racing and SailGP provide insights into AI's relentless incursion into the world of human performance.
AI, data analytics driving FPT's strong APAC growth
Enterprises across APAC are moving from AI trials to deployment, boosting demand for FPT's data-led transformation services.
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.
Workiva: The secret compliance and reporting arms race
Driven by improved tooling, finance teams are meeting higher standards as regulators and analysts scrutinise disclosures faster.
Filigran: Does your CISO know enough?
CISOs are under pressure to answer boardroom questions on exposure in minutes, as Filigran pushes CTEM and open-source validation tools.
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.
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.
Zendesk's outcome-based pricing balances AI with human touch
Businesses will pay only for closed support cases under Zendesk's new model, as the software group ties AI automation to human fallback.
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.
Expert Columns
Six questions to ask your MDR provider
Tool sprawl is quietly taxing the recruitment desk. A more unified model is changing the economics
Enterprises Do Not Have a Problem with Access to Technology, but with Choice
We ran an all-employee AI Month and now everyone in our company is ready to build
Securing the AI Systems of Tomorrow
2027 Predictions: The race to AI readiness exposes true cost of effective enterprise data management
Predictions 2027: Why the future of work is 'AI and human' adjacent
AI agents will multiply your inference bill. Is your enterprise ready?
Security Learnings from the Open Source Front Line
How Local Agentic AI Is Coming to Business PCs
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
Google Cloud warns AI agents will reshape cyber defence
The shift to machine-speed attacks could leave weekly scans and month-long patching too slow, as autonomous systems take on more security work.
Databricks launches always-on Genie AI agent for firms
The update aims to help large firms use AI for longer-running work without exposing sensitive data, while keeping every action auditable.
Microsoft names 2026 partner award winners & finalists
Recognition of partners across cloud and AI, security and business transformation underscores Microsoft's push to turn pilot projects into routine customer use.
Fleet launches AI governance push for endpoint GitOps
Endpoint teams could cut manual work and speed up fixes as Fleet's Git-based device management push won backing from Cisco and others.
Daylight raises USD $80 million to scale AI security
Rising demand from large enterprises has helped the New York-based cyber security group attract fresh capital to expand across the US, EMEA and APAC.
Industrial AI shifts from demos to tightly controlled use
Industrial users are adopting AI only in tightly bounded roles, as safety, power and integration constraints keep deployments under close human control.
AMD launches 6th Gen EPYC chips for AI data centres
The new chips are already shipping from major hardware vendors as AMD targets heavier AI and cloud workloads in the data centre.
New Relic launches Kubernetes agent in public preview
Operations teams facing Kubernetes outages may now get AI-generated fix code, as New Relic opens its incident-response agent to public preview.
PuppyGraph raises USD $10 million for AI graph engine
The new capital will fund engineering and sales expansion as PuppyGraph 1.0 goes live for enterprises needing AI agents to query data in place.
Adobe widens AI agents across creative & marketing tools
Adobe is trying to keep its software central as generative AI spreads, by letting customers use its tools alongside outside models and agents.
Linux Foundation launches Agent Name Service for AI
The open standard aims to let organisations verify AI agents before they are trusted to act across networks, systems and services.
Illumio joins WWT's AI resilience framework for containment
The move places Illumio in a vendor-neutral model that helps organisations judge how to contain breaches in increasingly connected AI systems.
Nvidia donates OpenShell to CNCF as it backs agent scale
The move puts autonomous AI agents and GPU clusters under open source scrutiny as NVIDIA seeks to shape the Kubernetes stack around them.
Google Cloud makes LookML indexing generally available
Enterprises using AI agents should get more reliable revenue and churn calculations as governed LookML definitions are now indexed in Knowledge Catalog by default.
Google Cloud launches IAM Helper for agent access tasks
That could cut deployment delays for firms using autonomous agents, while keeping higher-risk access changes behind human approval and audit trails.
Google Cloud donates three AI projects to CNCF Sandbox
The move puts Agent Substrate, gVisor and OpenRL under neutral governance as companies race to secure and scale automated workloads.
Adobe unveils AI agents across Firefly & Creative Cloud at Max
Creative teams will get agent-based tools and new workflows as Adobe rolls out updates across Firefly, Creative Cloud and GenStudio.
Adobe expands AI agents across Firefly & Creative Cloud
The updates broaden Adobe's AI tools for creators and marketers, with new assistants, partner models and Microsoft integrations now rolling out across its software.
Adobe expands Firefly with AI tools & creative agent
Users can now keep image, video and design work in one place as Adobe rolls out more AI tools and broader agent access in Firefly.
Ancep raises USD $8.5 million to boost broker revenue
The London start-up says its software can help brokers profitably handle lower-value risks that are often turned away, after raising USD $8.5 million.
