The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated Irish 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.
Irish AI Agents News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Integrity360 expands identity services after CyberIAM deal
Access risks are rising as cloud and AI adoption multiplies digital identities, prompting the enlarged team to target more complex controls.
Storm partners ContraForce to boost Littlefish SOC
Incident triage at Littlefish's security operation should speed up, with analysts freed to focus on higher-risk threats and response actions.
Littlefish & ContraForce boost AI-led threat response
AI tools will cut incident triage from hours to seconds for Littlefish clients, helping analysts prioritise real threats as alert volumes rise.
EY Ireland & CrowdStrike launch cyber resilience tie-up
Critical sectors in Ireland are under growing pressure to keep services running as AI-driven cyberattacks outpace traditional defences.
KPMG names eight Irish tech finalists for 2026 prize
Healthcare and AI start-ups dominate the shortlist, as investors prepare to hear pitches from firms tackling accessibility, childcare and drug delivery.
Why AI projects struggle to move beyond the pilot stage
Many businesses are finding that AI pilots stall when ownership, adoption and measurement questions emerge after the first demo.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
Gartner flags 10 tech trends for 2027 as AI governance
Gigamon unveils tools to track shadow AI across networks
Ping Identity named leader in Gartner's new CIAM report
Yooz launches agentic AI for non-PO invoice coding
Syndigo named leader in Gartner's first PIM quadrant
Featured News
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.
Celonis banking head: Banks want proof before scaling agents
Celonis argues frontier AI models are too generic for regulated banking, urging firms to weigh cost, risk and process gains before scaling deployments.
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.
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.
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.
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
AI agents will multiply your inference bill. Is your enterprise ready?
Security Learnings from the Open Source Front Line
It's time to embrace our robot overlords
Data Governance in the AI Era: Why One-Off Projects Fail
AI in Retail is Only as Good as its Data Foundation
The next eCommerce interface may not be a screen
In the AI era, channel value is being redefined
Stop saying AI hacked the system
Who allowed your AI agent to see that data?
The autonomous SOC takeover
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
NVIDIA launches Minerva to spot AI factory faults early
The software aims to cut downtime and boost output for operators of massive GPU clusters by turning event storms into likely root causes.
1Password launches sign-in tool for personal AI agents
The move could let users approve AI logins without exposing passwords, as 1Password bets secure access will shape adoption of personal agents.
Google Cloud unveils Agent Compute Engine for AI agents
The new service aims to make AI agents faster to start, cheaper to run and safer to isolate as cloud demand shifts beyond chatbots.
Kyndryl & AWS launch modernisation service for firms
Many organisations are lagging on technology upgrades, and the new Kyndryl and AWS offer is meant to cut the risk of large-scale modernisation.
Google Cloud launches AI agent engine & governance
Enterprises can now run autonomous AI agents with tighter isolation and governance as Google Cloud expands controls across its own services and other environments.
Compliance teams risk fines when skipping AI checks
Teams using unverified AI guidance are far more likely to be fined, with 37% of those skipping expert review reporting a penalty, survey data show.
Ransomware attacks jump 23% as industrial firms hit
Industrial firms bore the brunt as ransomware incidents climbed 23% in the third quarter, with North America also hit hard.
Financial firms race to deploy multi-agent AI systems
Only 10% of firms have enterprise-wide orchestration, leaving most banks and insurers unable to scale autonomous AI safely or prove returns.
Tracebit says context bombs cut AI attack success 91%
Tracebit's research suggests deception can sharply slow AI-driven intrusions, lifting attacker costs 23-fold while cutting completed objectives by 91%.
Red Hat & NVIDIA expand AI Factory with agent controls
Enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents may gain tighter safeguards as the two firms add runtime controls, governed inference and day-zero hardware support.
Illumio warns AI authority is outpacing security controls
Most firms now hand AI decisions once reserved for staff, but fewer than half can fully audit its actions, a new survey found.
Forrester says AI will shape 75% of B2B buys by 2027
Providers may need to overhaul sales and marketing as AI agents are set to influence 75% of B2B purchase decisions by 2027.
Google Cloud now adds OpenAI models to Model Garden
Enterprise customers will be able to compare and switch models by cost and performance on one invoice, intensifying cloud rivalry over AI access.
Elastic moves Jina AI models to faster NVIDIA GPUs
Customers could see faster search and AI responses, with some Elastic Jina models running up to 8x quicker after a shift to NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs.
CrowdStrike launches tools to detect risky AI agents
The tools are designed to spot rogue AI behaviour and simulate attacks before autonomous systems can reach critical data or systems.
Adobe puts CX Enterprise Coworker inside AI assistants
Marketers can now manage campaigns and customer journeys inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot as Adobe widens its AI reach.
JFrog adds AI security controls for developer tools
Security teams can now spot unauthorised AI tools on developer machines before they reach production, as JFrog extends its controls.
Hackers abuse trusted AI tools to breach organisations
Attackers are abusing approved AI and admin tools to move through networks in minutes, making traditional trust-based defences far less reliable.
Thoughtworks urges tighter controls as AI agents spread
Companies are being pushed to secure, monitor and budget for AI systems as agents take on longer tasks and strain review processes.
BeyondTrust launches AI agent security with new research
The new controls aim to curb AI agents' machine-speed access to company systems as research shows they can trigger thousands of endpoint actions.