AI Agents Arrived in 2025 – Here’s What Happened and the Challenges Ahead in 2026

AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the challenges ahead in 2026

AI agents have emerged from the lab, bringing promise and peril. tadamichi/iStock via Getty ImagesIn artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI agents – AI systems that can use other software tools and act on their own. While researchers have studied AI for more than 60 years, and the term “agen…

Commentary from the left: Meet the AI agents of 2026 — ambitious, overhyped and still in training

In 2026, AI agents will be everywhere in corporate decks and keynote speeches, but far less impressive in practice.

Chatbots are outdated: A guide to AI agents from The Current

I’ve always said the way we work with AI chatbots is pretty dumb.  You go to ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, type a prompt, it spits out an answer, and then what? You copy and paste that text into an email or use the info to book a flight on a different website. It’s clunky, manual and just a more polished Google search. But in 2026, all of that changes. We are moving away from chatbots and toward AI agents. You’re going to start hearing that term ev…