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This Wednesday morning, companies are pouring millions into agentic AI, with Empirik.ai leading the charge, securing $21 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and S32. Both Yahoo Finance and TradingView confirm this investment is for an AI agent designed to revolutionize infrastructure change. Agentic AI is rapidly transforming multiple sectors. HiddenLayer, an AI security company, just raised $100 million in Series B funding, according to Unite.AI, to secure these new AI coding agents. In response to growing threats, AWS and CrowdStrike are partnering to defend AI models, with SiliconANGLE reporting their collaboration on tools like Falcon IQ to assess and remediate security issues. F5 and MuleSoft are also integrating F5's AI Guardrails into Agent Fabric to embed AI runtime security directly into agentic AI workflows, as the Investing News Network details. New platforms are emerging to support this shift. OliverAI, backed by Menlo Ventures, is launching OliverDB, an analytical data platform specifically for agentic AI systems, promising hundreds of times faster performance than existing solutions, AI Insider reports. Fobi AI has unveiled AgenticBrain, a conversational platform connecting to existing systems for natural language interactions, confirmed by aithority.com. The impact is reaching diverse industries. NEC is launching its SCM AI Agent in September to automate supply chain tasks, as International Business Times covers. ManageCasa has expanded Minii AI for property management, allowing it to answer questions, analyze documents, and even serve residents directly, according to accessnewswire.com. Phys.org highlights agentic AI at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, accelerating the discovery of crops that harvest critical minerals, reducing analysis time for plant traits from hundreds of hours to minutes. However, human judgment remains paramount. Both Towards Data Science and WebWire, citing SAS executives, emphasize that while agentic AI handles execution, human skills like setting aspirations, making tough decisions, and generating original thought are still untouched. Beeline's MCP protocol for vendor management systems ensures AI agents securely access workforce data under human governance, PR Newswire states. This rapid advancement means your digital interactions, from customer service to supply chain logistics, are becoming increasingly automated and personalized, while the security of the underlying systems is more critical than ever.