Agentic AI News

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was supposed to be the universal connector for agentic AI — a standard way for agents to call tools without custom glue code. But at Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats dropped a significant signal: Perplexity is moving away from MCP internally, and the reason has major implications for anyone building production agentic systems. The Problem: 55,000 Tokens Before Your Agent Does Anything Yarats was direct about the technical issue. MCP tool definitions — the schema declarations that tell an agent what tools are available and how to call them — were consuming 55,000+ tokens before a single user message was processed. ...

If you had any doubts that the age of agentic AI has officially arrived, Jensen Huang just removed them. Speaking today at the SAP Center in San Jose before a packed crowd of more than 30,000 attendees, the NVIDIA founder and CEO declared GTC 2026 the moment the industry crossed an irreversible threshold — from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous agent. What Is GTC 2026? NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference is the company’s flagship annual event, bringing together researchers, engineers, and enterprise leaders to see where AI infrastructure is heading next. This year, the event has taken over downtown San Jose entirely, with workshops, hands-on labs, and what NVIDIA is calling “the largest AI infrastructure gathering in history.” ...

In a striking coincidence — or coordinated market response — two of enterprise security’s biggest names announced AI agent identity frameworks on the same day. Okta unveiled its “Blueprint for the Secure Agentic Enterprise” on Monday, while SailPoint announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to deliver unified identity governance for agentic AI deployments. Together, the announcements signal that AI agent identity has become the defining security battleground of 2026. ...

Alibaba Group is set to launch a new enterprise AI agent service powered by its flagship Qwen model this week, according to a Bloomberg exclusive published March 16, 2026. The announcement marks one of China’s most significant moves into enterprise agentic AI infrastructure — and positions Alibaba as a direct competitor to the Western enterprise agent platforms that have been dominating headlines. What Alibaba Is Building The service, developed under CEO Eddie Wu’s leadership through the newly formed Alibaba Token Hub business group, is built around Qwen — Alibaba’s most capable large language model — and integrates directly with Taobao, Alipay, and a range of enterprise cloud tools. ...

Atlassian has confirmed it is laying off approximately 1,600 employees — roughly 10% of its global workforce — in what the company explicitly frames as a pivot to AI-first product development. The announcement, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg on March 11 and followed by additional reporting through mid-March, represents one of the largest AI-driven restructurings in enterprise software so far. The company also replaced its Chief Technology Officer as part of the restructuring. ...

Model upgrades are supposed to make things better. Claude 4.6 did — eventually — but not before breaking production agent integrations in ways that caught teams completely off guard. The chanl.ai post-mortem published yesterday is exactly the kind of real-world account that practitioners need to read before migrating, not after. The LiveKit Incident: What Actually Happened The most concrete example in the post-mortem involves LiveKit’s Claude integration (GitHub issue #4907). When LiveKit’s team upgraded to Claude 4.6, their entire pipeline broke almost immediately — within two hours of deployment. ...

The OpenClaw ecosystem just got a significant new player. KiloClaw, a fully managed, hosted version of OpenClaw, launched on Product Hunt this week — and walked away with a perfect 5.0-star rating. For teams who want the power of multi-agent AI orchestration without the operational burden of running their own server, KiloClaw is positioning itself as the answer. What Is KiloClaw? KiloClaw handles everything that makes self-hosting OpenClaw complex: infrastructure provisioning, security hardening, updates, and 24/7 monitoring. Users get a production-grade OpenClaw environment without needing a Mac Mini, VPS, or DevOps team to keep it running. ...

There’s a story playing out right now across corporate boardrooms and earnings calls that would make for a compelling episode of Succession — if the stakes weren’t so real. Enterprise software CEOs are projecting calm confidence about AI agent disruption. Their lawyers are quietly writing something very different into regulatory filings. The gap between those two narratives is worth paying close attention to. The Public Message: Nothing to See Here Figma CEO Dylan Field and HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan have both offered reassuring takes on AI agents in recent months. The message: AI is an opportunity, our products are adapting, the disruption is manageable. ...

Enterprise automation just got a major upgrade. UiPath (NYSE: PATH) and Deloitte announced an expanded strategic alliance today, launching a new offering called Agentic ERP — an AI-native, model-agnostic architecture designed to bring autonomous orchestration to some of the largest and most complex enterprise environments in the world. Markets noticed: UiPath stock jumped 6.1% on the announcement. The Problem Agentic ERP Is Solving Here’s the reality of enterprise ERP in 2026: the software may be digital, but the work around it often isn’t. SAP deployments sit at the center of a patchwork of spreadsheets, email chains, portals, and point solutions. Finance teams manually reconcile data across systems. Compliance teams chase evidence through shared drives. Exception management means someone, somewhere, is switching between five screens to do something a well-designed agent could handle in seconds. ...

The past week delivered one of the more ironic chapters in OpenClaw’s rapid rise: on the same day AWS rolled out a shiny one-click managed deployment on Amazon Lightsail, security researchers were busy counting the 17,500+ exposed instances sitting vulnerable to remote code execution. Welcome to the double-edged reality of viral open-source software at scale. The Good News: OpenClaw Is Now One-Click on Lightsail AWS responded to sustained customer demand by bundling OpenClaw into its Lightsail blueprint catalog — the same service that makes spinning up a WordPress blog feel trivially easy. The new blueprint ships with Amazon Bedrock pre-configured (defaulting to Claude Sonnet 4.6), automated IAM role creation via CloudShell script, and support for connecting via WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, or web chat. ...