The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents

2026 · Australian 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.

Australian AI Agents news
Analyst Insights
Datarails unveils FinanceOS to power AI-driven finance
Gartner · Agentic AI · Risk & Compliance
Yesterday
Gartner tips AI to upend work tools, hiring & data
Gartner · Agentic AI · Data Analytics
Yesterday
Thrive unveils governed AI workspace & adoption model
Gartner · Agentic AI · UC
2 days ago
Dataiku unveils orchestration-focused AI Success platform
Gartner · Agentic AI · Data Analytics
3 days ago
Teradata adds agentic, multimodal AI to vector store
Gartner · Agentic AI · Hybrid Cloud
4 days ago
Reviews
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Gaming
Last month
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Gaming
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Mobile gaming
Wed, 7th May 2025
Expert columns
Introducing the first Frontier Suite built on Intelligence + Trust
By Judson Althoff of Microsoft Commercial Business
3 days ago
AI agents are joining the public service - who's governing them?
By Nam Lam of SailPoint
3 days ago
Why the next endpoint and SASE disruption will not come from a security vendor
By Chandrodaya Prasad of SonicWall
3 days ago
Upgrade advantage: More value, less effort for partners, MSPs & MSSPs
By Sarah Choi and Mahpara Banday of SonicWall
4 days ago
How the universal adoption of AI can help women in insurance balance the scales
By Laura Drabik of Guidewire
4 days ago
Female representation in AI is a win-win situation for businesses
By Emma Irwin of Dataiku
Last week
The autonomous future of Australian and New Zealand enterprises
By Mina Mousa of Extreme Networks
Last week
Why 2026 will separate the digital leaders from the laggards
By Pieter DeGunst of Tecala Group
Last week
Australia's CAIOs must harness AI‑native talent wave
By Sharryn Napier of GitHub
Last week
Agentic AI and the question of equitable intelligence
By Marlene Wolfgruber of ABBYY
Last week
Safe AI needs all voices: Celebrating the women who help drive CSA's AI safety initiative
By Illena Armstrong of Cloud Security Alliance
Last week
A deep dive into ANZ's travel insurance landscape - through the lens of payments
By Worldpay
Last week
International Women's Day: Embedding ethics, inclusion and skills at the heart of AI transformation
By Keir Garrett of Cloudera Australia and New Zealand
Last week
AI-era contact centres become strategic CX data hubs
By Martyn Riddle of Verint APAC
Last week
AI as a career accelerator: expanding influence beyond the IT function
By Amy Curran of Logic Monitor
Last week
Interviews
Confluent says data streaming will enable faster, better decisions
Discussing Business Intelligence
3 days ago
Elastic says AI search & context now decide customer loyalty
Discussing Big Data
3 days ago
'Software is not dead', says Elastic CPO Ken Exner
Discussing Software engineering
Last week
Guidewire showcases GenAI's capabilities in insurance risks
Discussing Cloud Services
Last week
Composable, process‑aware AI key to enterprise ROI
Discussing Digital Transformation
Last month
Recent news
Canva unveils Magic Layers to turn flat images editable
About Collaboration
Yesterday
monday.com gives AI agents full user status on platform
About Software-as-a-Service
Yesterday
Databricks unveils Genie Code and buys Quotient AI
About Business Intelligence
Yesterday
UiPath secures landmark AIUC-1 certification for AI agents
About Data Protection
Yesterday
Zendesk to acquire Forethought in agentic AI expansion
About Helpdesk
Yesterday
Databricks debuts Genie Code & snaps up Quotient AI
About Big Data
Yesterday
Sawmills debuts Mills, an agentic telemetry manager
About DevOps
Yesterday
KX unveils agentic AI blueprints for capital markets
About Fintech
Yesterday
Google adds powerful new Gemini tools to Workspace apps
About Software-as-a-Service
Yesterday
Blue Yonder rolls out agentic AI across supply chains
About Unified Communications
Yesterday
monday.com opens workspace doors to external AI agents
About Cloud Services
Yesterday
Equinix unveils vendor-neutral hub for distributed AI
About Firewalls
Yesterday
Socotra launches embedded AI assistant for underwriting
About Productivity
Yesterday
OpenAI brings Startups Week workshops to Australia
About Software engineering
Yesterday
Zapier data shows AI is now infrastructure for leads
About Customer Relationship Management
Yesterday
Job moves
Quiq hires Jen Grant as CMO to drive scaled AI agents
Move at Google
3 days ago
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
Prophet strengthens AI team with key engineering hires
Move at Google Cloud
Last month
Prophet names Rachel Scott as Head of Marketing Science
Move at Salvation Army
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
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