From CNET: Google is going all-in on agentic AI. At Google's Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, the tech giant announced a slew of updates aimed at helping its enterprise customers automate their business processes with AI agents.
Google Cloud reports that 75% of its customers use AI in their businesses, but given how inescapable AI has become in Google products like Docs, Sheets and Gmail, that high figure isn't surprising. But Google is still doubling down, writing in a blog post that it's chasing the idea of the "agentic enterprise."
Agentic AI is the tech that runs agents, or bots, that can autonomously complete tasks, with little human babysitting needed. It's transforming AI, particularly for coding and workplace tasks. Tech companies have embraced agents this year, placing big bets that tools like OpenClaw, Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex will fulfill AI's promise of automating big swaths of tasks. Now, Google is giving its business tech the same agentic makeover.
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