IDC: Why the right networking approach is foundational to agentic AI

Editor’s note: Today we hear from IDC on the results of its 2026 AI in Networking Special Report Survey exploring the enterprises’ concerns about networking infrastructure to support the rise of agentic AI in their organizations. The survey was sponsored by Google Cloud. Enterprises are moving quickly on AI pilots, but the move from pilot …

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is …

Proactive Agent Research Environment: Simulating Active Users to Evaluate Proactive Assistants

Proactive agents that anticipate user needs and autonomously execute tasks hold great promise as digital assistants, yet the lack of realistic user simulation frameworks hinders their development. Existing approaches model apps as flat tool-calling APIs, failing to capture the stateful and sequential nature of user interaction in digital environments and making realistic user simulation infeasible. …

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Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock

Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their product launches on Hacker News. Stack Overflow questions spike. A GitHub repo crosses 2,400 stars. Each signal alone is noise, but correlated across sources, they reveal a prospect ready to buy. Multi-agent systems built with …

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Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were focused on building the global infrastructure, security frameworks, and data platforms that power the world’s largest organizations. We’ve always believed that technology is only as good as its reliability, security, …

Alan Turing’s biggest AI assumption may have been wrong

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing’s famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of …