The tech landscape has officially shifted. According to the latest reports from HCLSoftware and Microsoft released this Monday, 2026 is being hailed as the “crossover year” where Artificial Intelligence transitions from a predictive tool to an autonomous agent.
Industry experts are calling this the “Age of Agentic AI.” Unlike the copilots of 2024, these new systems are capable of “intelligence delegation”—meaning they can independently manage complex tasks like supply chain negotiations, real-time risk mitigation, and even autonomous software coding without human oversight.
