Market intelligence, product developments and analysis for the agentic AI ecosystem.
This week in agentic AI: Tencent targets a $2bn+ investment in Manus, July funding reaches $1.8bn, Okta and Google Cloud extend identity to AI agents, and enterprise governance goes from pilot to production.
17 July 2026 · 5 min
PwC US has launched agentic contact and service solutions built with OpenAI, creating a dedicated Center of Excellence. What this signals about the Big Four, enterprise customer service, and the procurement of agentic AI platforms.
16 July 2026 · 5 min
Cisco will deploy AI agents to all 90,000 employees from July 2026. CFO Mark Patterson explains how the company is building a model-routing, on-premises architecture that balances performance, cost and data control at Fortune 500 scale.
15 July 2026 · 5 min
Nous Research is raising at least $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes, its open-source AI agent. The round signals that open-source agents are now a credible enterprise alternative to closed platforms — and that procurement teams need new evaluation criteria.
14 July 2026 · 5 min
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work brings autonomous multi-step AI agents to Windows, macOS and the web. What enterprise buyers need to know about permissions, governance and the shift from chatbot to co-worker.
13 July 2026 · 5 min
The biggest stories in agentic AI this week: the first autonomous AI ransomware attack, model export controls, Salesforce and Cisco going live with enterprise agents, and the compliance tidal wave facing buyers.
10 July 2026 · 6 min
Salesforce has pledged USD 1 billion over five years to accelerate Switzerland’s agentic AI transformation. The move signals that sovereign investment and enterprise-grade platforms are now the primary levers of national AI strategy.
9 July 2026 · 5 min
Accenture Edge and Google Cloud are launching a suite of pre-built agentic AI solutions targeting mid-market companies. The move signals enterprise-scale agents are now reaching the revenue band between £230 million and £2.3 billion.
8 July 2026 · 5 min
Forty-seven per cent of global employees now use AI agents daily or weekly, yet 88% of organisations suffered a security incident in the past year. AvePoint, Deloitte, the UN Scientific Panel and the FCA all point to the same problem.
7 July 2026 · 5 min
SnapLogic's new MCP Builder turns existing integration pipelines into agent-ready tools automatically, tackling the operational gap that sinks 50% of enterprise AI projects after proof of concept.
6 July 2026 · 5 min
The biggest stories in agentic AI this week: Microsoft Frontier, super agents connecting enterprise silos, Anthropic governance updates, regulation progress, and the 60% production deployment milestone.
3 July 2026 · 6 min
By 2030, up to $234 billion of enterprise application software spending could be exposed to agentic arbitrage as autonomous agents bypass traditional user interfaces and seat-based licensing.
2 July 2026 · 5 min
The latest developments in agentic AI across the enterprise sector, from new product launches to strategic partnerships and market signals.
12 June 2026 · 3 min
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