Agentic AI has become the official frame
Latest Processing Gap
The processing is split by industry: marketers see workflow automation, security professionals see autonomous adversaries, philosophers see the loss of the tool/agent distinction. No central conversation, by design. The transition from "AI that answers" to "AI that does" happened in a quarter and was named only after it was already operational.
Appearances
IBM Think 2026 set the term last week; the Model Context Protocol and Agent-to-Agent protocol have cut tool-integration time from months to minutes; Google released the Gemma 4 family for the open-source community on May 4. The shift is from systems that answer to systems that *plan and execute* inside business processes. The financial press treats this as a productivity story. The infosec press treats it as a new attack surface — the first AI-developed zero-day in the wild last week was, in ret ...
The processing is split by industry: marketers see workflow automation, security professionals see autonomous adversaries, philosophers see the loss of the tool/agent distinction. No central conversation, by design. The transition from "AI that answers" to "AI that does" happened in a quarter and was named only after it was already operational.