This week brought exciting news about how agentic AI is changing the way scientists work. Agentic AI refers to smart computer programs that can think, plan, and take action on their own to help people solve problems.

On October 6th, a company called CAS announced new AI helpers for scientists in the United States. These AI agents can answer complex science questions in plain language. Scientists can ask questions just like they would ask another person, and the AI gives them answers based on real scientific data. The AI can even respond in different languages to help researchers around the world.

A few days later, on October 8th, Thunder, Salesforce, and the University of Southern California teamed up to create a special research lab. This new lab will study how agentic AI changes business and helps students learn about this new technology. The lab will focus on four areas including healthcare and how companies use AI.

These developments show that agentic AI is becoming a powerful tool for discovery. Unlike older AI programs that just answer questions, these new AI agents can actually do tasks and help scientists find connections they might have missed. They work like smart assistants that understand what researchers need and can explore large amounts of information quickly.

The big change is that scientists can now talk to their computers in normal, everyday language instead of using complicated commands. This makes scientific research faster and helps experts spend more time on important thinking work rather than searching through data.