## Weekly Update: Human-AI Synergy and Agentic AI

The week of November 3-11, 2025 showed how AI agents are changing the way people work and how humans and AI can be better together. These aren't just dreams anymore—real companies are using AI agents right now to do important work.

### Big Companies Announce New AI Agent Tools

On November 5, 2025, Thomson Reuters made a huge announcement. This company helps lawyers, accountants, and tax experts do their jobs. They announced new agentic AI solutions called ONESOURCE+ and updated versions of CoCounsel. David Wong, the Chief Product Officer, said Thomson Reuters is the only company with everything you need to make AI agents work like professionals. They have smart AI models, tons of information, thousands of experts, and tools that people already use every day. This means their AI agents can really understand complicated work and help people finish tasks faster.

### Understanding When Humans and AI Work Well Together

One important discovery this week came from research about human-AI teamwork. Scientists studied many cases where humans worked with AI, and they found something surprising. Sometimes adding a human made things better, but other times it made things worse.

Here is the key finding: humans add real value when they are better at the task than AI is. Think of it like this—if you are really good at catching mistakes, then you can help an AI by checking its work. But if the AI is already really good at something, and you are not as good, then trying to help actually makes things worse.

Research showed that the best teams happen when each person (or AI) brings something different and valuable. When a human has knowledge or skills that AI doesn't have, and the AI is fast and can look at many options, then they work great together. But this only works if people are trained to use AI well and if the AI is designed to work with humans.

### The Market for AI Agents is Growing Huge

Companies around the world are racing to build AI agent marketplaces. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, and others are spending billions of dollars. They are offering help to partners, money for new companies, and training programs to help people build AI agents.

The numbers are really big. In 2024, the agentic AI market was worth 5.25 billion dollars. But experts think by 2034, it will be worth nearly 200 billion dollars. That is growing 43 percent every year. This is happening because AI agents can help businesses save money, work faster, and make better choices.

### Real Companies Using AI Agents Right Now

AI agents are not just ideas anymore—they are doing real work for real companies. LogicMonitor is a company that watches computer systems. They built an AI agent called Edwin AI. This agent cut down confusing alerts by up to 88 percent and reduced the number of support tickets by 70 percent. That happened in just a few weeks.

Cisco, the big networking company, just announced a new platform called Unified Edge that helps AI agents work faster by processing information at the edge of networks. This means AI agents can make decisions faster without waiting for information to go all the way to the cloud.

Even sports is getting in on this. LALIGA, the top soccer league in Spain, picked a company called Globant to help them use agentic AI to come up with new ideas. This shows that AI agents are useful in many different industries, not just tech companies.

### The Future of Humans and AI Working Together

Research suggests that human-AI synergy works best in creative work and complex problem-solving. In creative tasks like writing and design, AI and humans make great partners. The human can decide which AI ideas are good and build on them, while AI brings new and unusual ideas to the table.

Looking ahead, as AI agents get smarter, humans will focus more on jobs that need judgment, creativity, and ethical thinking. In the next five years, AI agents might become good partners for scientists, strategists, and innovators. Instead of replacing humans, these smart AI agents could help humans do better work by handling the heavy lifting.

The key lesson from this week's news is that the future is not about humans versus AI. It is about humans and AI working as a real team, where each one does what it does best, and together they accomplish more than either one could alone.