1000 GMT - Companies that sell software as a service need to embed artificial-intelligence agents in their products to succeed in the AI era, Clay Bavor, co-founder of AI startup Sierra, says at the HumanX AI conference in Amsterdam. "These days, if you aren't doing something agentic, you're nothing," he says. AI agents are meant to autonomously perform multiple tasks on users' behalf. Software stocks took a beating earlier this year after some investors started to question whether rapid advancements in AI could replace the services for which software-as-a-service, or SaaS, companies charge clients.