The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents

2026 · Asian 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.

Asian AI Agents news
Analyst reports
Tamr doubles SaaS revenue as AI drives data mastering
Gartner · Agentic AI · UC
Today
Mid-market firms stall at pilot stage for agentic AI
Everest Group · Agentic AI · DevOps
Yesterday
Revenium unveils Tool Registry to track full AI costs
Gartner · Agentic AI · Digital Transformation
2 days ago
Q4 upgrades IR sites to boost visibility in AI search
Gartner · Agentic AI · SaaS
3 days ago
Lightrun unveils AI SRE tool for live runtime debugging
Gartner · Agentic AI · DevOps
Last week
Expert columns
Safe AI needs all voices: Celebrating the women who help drive CSA's AI safety initiative
By Illena Armstrong of Cloud Security Alliance
Today
AI-era contact centres become strategic CX data hubs
By Martyn Riddle of Verint APAC
Yesterday
Designing equal opportunity in AI and adtech leadership
By Kathy Lu of Nexxen
3 days ago
The AI infrastructure trap: Why your 'AI-ready' project may already be obsolete
By Fabio Straessle of G+D Netcetera
4 days ago
How insurance providers are making their customer data AI ready
By Helen Richardson of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Insurance
Last week
AI is rewriting the B2B marketing playbook for CIOs, CTOs & CMOS
By James Foote of Polaris
Last week
Beyond technology: How leadership drives contact centre performance
By Ed Creasey of Calabrio
Last week
2026 begins: Crypto's heavyweight rumble - round by round
By Easy Crypto
Last week
Redefining retail discovery for Southeast Asian brands with Gen AI
By Simone Morandi of Accenture Song
Last month
Stop burning money on manual marketing tasks
By Adrian Randall of Arcadian Digital
Last month
Australia eyes open AI infrastructure for 2026 era
By Alexey Navolokin of AMD
Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
Preparing campus and branch networks for AI demand
By Dimitri Polydorou of Cisco
Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
How AI helps neurodivergent professionals showcase their strengths
By Susanna Ray of Microsoft
Mon, 19th Jan 2026
AI's 2026 security fallout: identity chaos & deepfake fear
By OpenText Cybersecurity
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
Agentic AI double agents expose dangerous security gaps
By Pieter Danhieux of Secure Code Warrior
Wed, 14th Jan 2026
Interviews
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
Oracle launches new AI Agent Marketplace for Fusion suite
Discussing Digital Transformation
Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Oracle Fusion unveils AI agents to boost finance team efficiency
Discussing B2B
Thu, 16th Oct 2025
Recent news
Autonomous AI 'agentic customers' set to reshape banks
About Data Protection
Today
Teramind launches AI governance to tackle shadow AI
About Firewalls
Yesterday
RedCloud hits 100,000 users as it rolls out agentic AI
About Big Data
Yesterday
Microsoft warns of AI agent risks in Cyber Pulse brief
About Business Continuity
Yesterday
Typeface unveils AI engine for governed marketing at scale
About Marketing
Yesterday
AI in love lives: help for some, a deal-breaker for others
About Online dating
2 days ago
Celonis users save USD $10 billion with AI operations
About Productivity
2 days ago
Atlassian brings AI agents to Jira with MCP support
About Software-as-a-Service
3 days ago
Broadcom previews AI-native VMware Telco Cloud 9 for MNOs
About Virtualisation
3 days ago
SentinelOne unveils identity tools for human & AI use
About Data Protection
3 days ago
Dyna.Ai raises eight-figure Series A for agentic AI
About Software-as-a-Service
3 days ago
AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 chips for Copilot+ desktops
About PC Hardware
3 days ago
Avalara buys Versori to boost AI-driven integrations
About Software-as-a-Service
3 days ago
Amazon invests USD $50 billion in major OpenAI AWS deal
About Cloud Services
4 days ago
Locus tops G2 ranking for route planning & logistics
About Sustainability
4 days ago
Job moves
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
OutSystems appoints Fay Sien Goon as new finance chief
Move at ServiceNow
Tue, 13th Jan 2026
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