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Retail Giant Introduces Advanced AI Oversight as Mandy and Olive Evolve into Autonomous Shopping Assistants Australian retail giant Woolworths is taking another major step in its artificial intelligence journey by expanding the capabilities of its AI-powered customer assistants. The company has announced plans to transform its Mandy assistant into a fully agentic AI system while extending the rollout of Olive, its customer service assistant, to consumers after a successful internal deployment. The initiative demonstrates how retailers are moving beyond generative AI toward autonomous systems capable of completing customer tasks, making contextual decisions, and managing end-to-end shopping experiences. Mandy Set to…

Collaboration Aims to Transform Customer Experience, Employee Productivity, and AI-Powered Devices HP has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to accelerate the adoption of agentic artificial intelligence across its business operations. The collaboration will integrate OpenAI’s Frontier platform into HP’s internal systems and customer-facing services, marking a significant step in the company’s AI transformation strategy. The partnership is designed to move beyond traditional AI assistants by embedding autonomous AI capabilities into customer support, software development, workplace productivity, and enterprise workflows. Building a Unified AI Experience According to HP, one of the primary goals of the partnership is to create a…

Introduction Artificial Intelligence has entered a new era. While generative AI transformed how businesses create content, write code, and automate repetitive tasks, the next evolution—Agentic AI—is redefining how work gets done. Unlike traditional AI systems that respond only when prompted, agentic AI systems can reason, plan, make decisions, execute workflows, and collaborate with both humans and software autonomously. These intelligent AI agents are becoming digital employees capable of managing customer service, sales, finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, and countless enterprise operations. As adoption accelerates, one question continues to dominate conversations among entrepreneurs, investors, and enterprise leaders: How do Agentic AI companies make…

Conversational AI specialist Omilia has announced a strategic partnership with digital transformation consultancy valantic to bring its self-learning Agentic Customer Experience (CX) platform to enterprise contact centers across the DACH region—Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—as well as the Benelux countries. The collaboration is designed to help organizations modernize customer service operations using autonomous voice and chat AI technologies. Under the agreement, valantic will offer Omilia’s complete Agentic CX portfolio to its enterprise customers. The platform includes AI-powered Voice and Chat Agents, Authentication Agents, TalkGuard for fraud prevention, and Workforce AI solutions, enabling businesses to automate customer interactions while improving service quality…

The rapid adoption of agentic AI is transforming modern workplaces, enabling autonomous AI systems to perform complex tasks, automate workflows, and support business decision-making. While these intelligent agents promise significant productivity gains, they are also introducing a new generation of cybersecurity risks that traditional security frameworks were never designed to address. Unlike conventional AI assistants that primarily generate content, agentic AI systems can independently interact with enterprise applications, access sensitive information, trigger workflows, and make operational decisions. As organizations across the Asia-Pacific region accelerate AI adoption, cybersecurity leaders warn that securing these autonomous digital workers must become a strategic priority.…

Businesses have already witnessed how generative AI can improve productivity, enhance customer experiences, and support better decision-making. The next phase of artificial intelligence, however, goes far beyond content generation. Agentic AI introduces autonomous systems capable of planning, coordinating workflows, making decisions, and executing tasks with limited human intervention. Despite growing enthusiasm, enterprise adoption remains cautious. According to a recent HFS Research–Genpact study surveying 545 senior executives across 11 industries, 92% of business leaders believe agentic AI will fundamentally reshape the way organizations operate. Yet nearly 80% of enterprises continue to run AI agents under human supervision, highlighting that trust, governance,…

AI-powered martech startup JustAI has secured $17 million (approximately ₹160.2 crore) in a Series A funding round led by U.S.-based venture capital firm Base10. Existing investors Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners also participated in the round, alongside prominent angel investors and industry leaders. The funding round attracted support from HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, founders of Eppo and Vapi, as well as executives from AI company Anthropic and fintech firm Chime. The fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development, expand engineering and go-to-market (GTM) teams, strengthen the company’s agentic AI infrastructure, and broaden its offerings into…

Agentic AI is rapidly emerging as the next evolution of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional AI systems that respond to prompts or analyze data, agentic AI can plan, reason, make decisions, and execute complex tasks autonomously. These AI agents can interact with applications, access information, use tools, and complete multi-step workflows with minimal human intervention. From customer service and finance to healthcare, cybersecurity, and software development, organizations are investing heavily in AI agents to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and drive innovation. However, as AI systems become more autonomous, concerns about security, governance, accountability, and ethical decision-making continue to grow. The question…

Kanverse.ai has launched a new Agentic AI Platform designed to help enterprises automate and optimize finance operations through intelligent AI agents. The platform enables organizations to create, deploy, and govern AI-powered agents capable of handling complex business processes, marking the company’s latest step in advancing enterprise automation. The new solution combines agentic AI capabilities, intelligent document processing, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, and a no-code AI Agent Studio into a single platform. By bringing these technologies together, Kanverse.ai aims to help finance teams move beyond traditional workflow automation and toward more autonomous, outcome-focused operations. Unlike conventional automation systems that rely heavily…

Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership aimed at helping organizations accelerate the adoption of agentic AI across enterprise environments. The enhanced collaboration reflects the growing demand for autonomous AI systems that can streamline operations, improve decision-making, and drive business transformation at scale. The agreement builds on the companies’ existing relationship and focuses on enabling enterprises to move beyond AI experimentation toward real-world implementation. By combining Kyndryl’s expertise in IT services and infrastructure management with AWS’s cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, the partnership seeks to provide organizations with the tools needed to deploy…