The Ultimate Guide to AI Agents
A curated Canadian edition of TechDay 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.
Canadian AI Agents News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Canadian workers say AI adds friction, Ricoh finds
Most Canadian staff say workplace AI is adding friction, even as 86% of decision-makers believe their investments are paying off.
Canadian firms warned of AI risks to financial data
Business leaders say AI is shortening response windows, exposing staff errors and forcing boards to tighten cyber controls across Canada.
TD expands agentic AI into mortgage funding operations
The bank expects the new tools to double colleague productivity in early funding and discharge checks, while staff keep final oversight.
Kyndryl VP: Canadian firms face barriers to modernising for AI
Kyndryl's Umair Dinarwala says Canadian firms have the ambition to modernise, but budgets, resistance to change and capacity hold them back.
Canadian firms lag on IT modernisation, Kyndryl says
Nearly half of Canadian organisations say they are behind on modernisation, as legacy systems, budgets and approvals slow upgrades.
Crowe BGK to adopt Fieldguide in Canadian audit work
Canadian auditors may cut manual work as Fieldguide embeds CPA Canada forms and becomes Crowe BGK's first local firm user.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to AI Agents
Provenir named major player in IDC decision intelligence
Saviynt recognised in Gartner PAM report for third year
BeyondTrust named leader in Gartner PAM report again
Nintex launches process tool to tie AI to workflows
NiCE named Gartner CCaaS leader as AI revenue jumps
Featured News
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.
Kyndryl VP: Canadian firms face barriers to modernising for AI
Kyndryl's Umair Dinarwala says Canadian firms have the ambition to modernise, but budgets, resistance to change and capacity hold them back.
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.
Lumana's focus on vertical applications for AI video surveillance platform
Lumana's Principal Product Manager says its camera-agnostic AI platform is expanding beyond security into retail, healthcare and smart cities.
Grafana Labs launches six AI tools for telemetry & agents
Grafana Labs has launched six AI observability tools during its AI Week, including new capabilities for monitoring and investigating AI agents.
Reviews
Expert Columns
How Local Agentic AI Is Coming to Business PCs
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
Watching the Agents: AI Observability Has to Evolve for the Agentic Era
The autonomous SOC takeover
How security leaders should measure AI SOC performance
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent AI Agents News
Sonatype launches Nexus Repository Pro+ for AI screening
It blocks malicious or policy-breaking software and AI artefacts at intake, helping enterprises cut build failures, rework and release risk.
Nvidia's AI tools drive smart city pilots across Europe
Cities from Liverpool to Gothenburg are using Nvidia's AI tools to cut admin time, improve safety and lower operating costs in public services.
Backbase launches Delivery Factory to speed bank projects
The tool aims to cut bank delivery times and reduce rework by linking AI agents to agreed requirements, design and code from the outset.
Fortinet launches AI security service for FortiGate
The cloud-delivered offering adds real-time prompt and response inspection to existing firewalls, helping firms curb shadow AI, data loss and runaway spend.
Neubird launches governed hub for AI production agents
Large organisations can now centralise oversight of AI agents in production as NeuBird's new platform logs approvals, costs and actions.
BT International expands Global Fabric with security options
Multinational firms can now choose from four security providers on BT's network platform as AI traffic raises demands on speed, resilience and control.
Oracle launches agentic AI tools & Deep Trust architecture
Businesses using Oracle Fusion software will get new AI tools that can act on approved tasks, while a trust framework aims to curb data and security risks.
Oracle: Fusion agents stop recommending and start doing
Oracle used its AI World keynote to show Fusion agents that act rather than advise, with Spectrum's AskHR and Burger King Italia as proof points.
AWS reveals Prime Day 2026's vast infrastructure load
The four-day sale pushed AWS to peak at 192 million DynamoDB requests a second and more than 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations daily.
Google expands AI agent kit to five languages
The update could cut engineering overhead for firms mixing web, backend and Android systems, as agents can now interoperate across five languages.
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Sumo Logic previews Root Cause Agent for DevOps teams
The new tool is aimed at cutting incident triage from hours to minutes by analysing logs and metrics for likely causes automatically.
Nvidia backs open standards for AI factory builds
The move could let data centre builders use common blueprints for high-power AI systems, easing deployment of racks up to 250kW.
Google puts Gemini 4 Argon on Cloud for enterprise
Businesses and developers can now tap Gemini 4 Argon on Google Cloud, as Google targets long-running enterprise tasks and cyber defence.
Nvidia unveils RTX Spark software push for AI & games
Creative and coding apps will run locally on RTX Spark laptops as Nvidia and partners add AI tools, security and gaming support before launch.
Marketers fear AI visibility is eroding brand quality
More than 500 marketing leaders in the US and UK say AI search is pushing brands to trade authenticity and quality for citations.
Graylog launches AI case system in security platform
Security teams may cut alert overload as Graylog's new case system groups evidence and lets AI triage incidents before analysts step in.
AI shopping assistants triple traffic, hitting retailers
Retailers face a fresh holiday-season test as agentic assistants surge, with Forter seeing orders from them more than triple in a month.
FourKites launches AI model to deliver supply chain outcomes
Supply chain executives may see faster service and lower costs as the firm ties AI agents to measurable results rather than software adoption.
BrowserStack launches load testing with browser traffic
It aims to catch browser-side failures during traffic spikes, with up to 1 million API virtual users and 1,000 browser users in one test.
WWT & DDN launch AI storage design for NVIDIA Vera Rubin
It aims to ease power and planning bottlenecks for AI campuses by matching storage to GPU racks and cutting recomputation delays.