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The Ultimate Guide to Multi-Agent

A curated UK edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Multi-Agent.

What to know about Multi-Agent

Multi-agent AI is reshaping how organisations design, deploy and govern intelligent systems. Instead of relying on a single model to handle every task, multi-agent setups coordinate many specialised agents – from coding assistants and SRE bots to security, marketing and customer service agents – each optimised for a specific role. This tag explores how these coordinated systems promise higher productivity, more reliable automation and richer decision-making across complex workflows.

The stories here trace multi-agent AI’s rapid move from theory to enterprise reality. You’ll find platform launches for orchestrating fleets of coding and operations agents, new infrastructure layers built to manage identity, access and governance for agent swarms, and tools that bring multi-agent capabilities to data platforms, cloud security, customer intelligence and IT support. Alongside the innovation, coverage also highlights emerging risks, new threat models and the fresh risk-management strategies needed when many agents can act semi-autonomously.

Readers interested in the next phase of AI automation can use this tag to follow how agentic and multi-agent systems are changing business models, cloud architecture, cyber security and everyday work. Whether you’re evaluating enterprise AI agents, planning autonomous workflows or wrestling with process friction, these articles offer concrete examples, early lessons from deployments and insight into how organisations are preparing for a future run by coordinated AI teams rather than standalone models.

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ASC-IT launches Darkmoon for private AI pentesting
IT Department

ASC-IT launches Darkmoon for private AI pentesting

The platform lets security teams run AI pentests without exposing customer infrastructure data to external models.

Yesterday

Google Cloud unveils 13 Gemini Enterprise agent demos
App development

Google Cloud unveils 13 Gemini Enterprise agent demos

Developers can now use Google Cloud's examples to build and govern Gemini-powered agents for approvals, compliance and data workflows.

Yesterday

Google tests AI agents on short film-making project
Research and Development

Google tests AI agents on short film-making project

The experiment showed AI crews can coordinate across files and roles, but still stumble on timing, continuity and safety filters.

Last week

Oracle adds AI-native builder for Fusion applications
IT Industry

Oracle adds AI-native builder for Fusion applications

Customers can now build and run AI-powered business apps inside Fusion, cutting the governance and integration work needed to move pilots into production.

Last week

Google Cloud expands Claude support on Agent Platform
Identity and Access Management

Google Cloud expands Claude support on Agent Platform

The update gives enterprises managed access to Anthropic's models with built-in failover, data residency and compliance controls for production AI use.

Last week

Quantum computing used to study chimpanzee conflict
Supercomputing

Quantum computing used to study chimpanzee conflict

The project could sharpen conservation planning by showing how habitat and food pressures shape violent and peaceful behaviour in primates.

Last week

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 models with new coding push
IT Industry

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 models with new coding push

Businesses could see faster, cheaper AI coding and office workflows as OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 with stronger safeguards.

This month

Google sets out 20-question framework for AI agents
Digital Transformation

Google sets out 20-question framework for AI agents

The framework aims to help IT leaders control security, governance and costs as agent-based systems move from pilot projects into production.

This month

Google outlines runtime schema checks for AI agents
Applications

Google outlines runtime schema checks for AI agents

The approach could cut token use and errors as developers build more complex multi-agent workflows with changing schemas.

This month

MSAI signs GBP £50m deal to expand UK AI infrastructure
Robotics

MSAI signs GBP £50m deal to expand UK AI infrastructure

The financing will fund MSAI's largest sovereign hardware deployment to date, with new compute installed in Scotland for UK-based AI customers.

This month

Claude models go live on Microsoft Foundry via Azure
Robotics

Claude models go live on Microsoft Foundry via Azure

Azure customers can now deploy Claude for governed enterprise agents as Microsoft Foundry widens access to Anthropic's models on NVIDIA GB300 hardware.

Last month

Build raises USD $8.5 million to automate infrastructure
Productivity

Build raises USD $8.5 million to automate infrastructure

The funding will speed expansion as developers race to clear power, planning and environmental hurdles for data centres and other infrastructure.

Last month

Google Cloud uses AI agents to secure software lifecycle
Chief Information Security Officer

Google Cloud uses AI agents to secure software lifecycle

Its internal security team says automated agents now speed vulnerability checks, patching and production monitoring as attacks intensify.

Last month

Millions of AI agents are running unsupervised, survey warns
Chief Technology Officers

Millions of AI agents are running unsupervised, survey warns

Many companies are deploying autonomous software faster than they can govern it, leaving thousands of agents able to act without approval.

Last month

New Relic launches Autopilot & Ground Truth for AI
Productivity

New Relic launches Autopilot & Ground Truth for AI

Businesses running AI agents may now route incident response and observability data through New Relic's new tools, aimed at cutting operational toil.

Last month

NTT DATA launches AI agent for consumer goods planning
Marketing

NTT DATA launches AI agent for consumer goods planning

Product teams may get concepts to review in minutes rather than months as the new service aims to speed early decisions on brand fit and compliance.

Last month

Databricks launches open-source Omnigent for AI agents
IT Budget

Databricks launches open-source Omnigent for AI agents

The open-source release gives enterprises a single control layer for fragmented AI agent tools, with governance and cost controls built in.

Last month

Rubrik ties AI security tools to AWS Bedrock AgentCore
Disaster Recovery

Rubrik ties AI security tools to AWS Bedrock AgentCore

AWS customers building AI agents gain policy enforcement and recovery tools as Rubrik extends its governance layer into Bedrock AgentCore.

Last month

Ivalua launches single-agent IVA for procurement tasks
Digital Transformation

Ivalua launches single-agent IVA for procurement tasks

Procurement teams could get faster invoice checks and contract searches, while Ivalua bets on tighter governance with a single AI agent.

Last month