AI Agent News Today
Friday, April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 – Today's AI agent advancements highlight real-time reasoning and multi-agent collaboration breakthroughs, with Microsoft unveiling 11 new autonomous security agents in its Security Copilot platform. These include a phishing triage agent handling 30 billion annual alerts and a vulnerability remediation agent automating patches across 84 trillion daily security signals. The company also deepened Fabric data agent integrations with Azure AI Foundry, enabling enterprise conversational agents to leverage OneLake data for contextual decision-making.
Microsoft's free AI Agents Hackathon (April 8-30) gained momentum, offering 20+ expert sessions on building agents with Semantic Kernel and Azure AI Agent Service. Meanwhile, Apple accelerated development of Project Mulberry, an AI health coaching agent analyzing wearable data for personalized nutrition/exercise recommendations, slated for iOS 19.4 integration by mid-2025.
Investor focus shifted toward agentic AI 2.0, with forecasts predicting $50.31 billion market growth by 2030 as systems evolve from structured task execution to autonomous cross-functional reasoning. Early deployments in HR, customer service, and retail demonstrate 38% efficiency gains in structured workflows.