Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols
Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols
Agentic AI30 Jan 2026 | 6
Agentic AI
The buzzword of the moment and the next stage in the AI revolution is agentic AI, in which autonomous software agents will employ AI to complete tasks on behalf of users. This week we'll explore the underlying infrastructure, including the evolving protocol landscape, and explore real-world use cases from the huge variety of vendors jumping aboard this bandwagon.
Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom
'We're letting thousands of interns run around in our production environment'
Agentic AI29 Jan 2026 | 18
Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users in automated browsing push
The world’s most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing
Agentic AI29 Jan 2026 | 38
ServiceNow boasts about years of sweat equity that went into making its AI agents smarter
80 billion workflows makes a difference
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 5
Yes, you can build an AI agent - here’s how, using LangFlow
Hands On AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 11
AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production
Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 9
How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies
Feature You can’t cheaply recompute without re-running the whole model – so KV cache starts piling up
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 5
Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues
The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 13
Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army
Analytics features arrive first; agentic AI comes later
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 10
'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 an hour
Feature Developer behind it is sick with worry he might have changed software development in nasty ways
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 151
Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever
Updated Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 11
Claude can now disgorge interface elements from other apps
An official Model Context Protocol extension
Agentic AI26 Jan 2026 | 6
Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity
Even agents checking other agents can still get it wrong
Agentic AI26 Jan 2026 | 14
Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued
Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI
Agentic AI26 Jan 2026 | 8
When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
Opinion Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter
Agentic AI26 Jan 2026 | 40
Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat
interview Lock 'em down
Agentic AI04 Jan 2026 | 22
Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss
Interview What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?
Agentic AI21 Dec 2025 | 12
Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in
Flat-rate deals may sting now, but vendor expects payback over decades
Agentic AI15 Dec 2025 | 8
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar
Agentic AI13 Dec 2025 | 96
Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software
Opinion Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era
Agentic AI06 Nov 2025 | 35
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Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Opinion Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you
Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign
AI vision systems can be very literal readers
OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it
GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered
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£1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened
On Call 60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it
Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups
Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion
Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers
Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it
Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach
Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits
January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days
Consider yourselves compromised, experts warn
Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones
Bark!Bark!Bark! Spot's new cleanup gig involves gamma rays, alpha particles, and considerably less PPE than fleshy colleagues
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