December saw a surge in enterprise adoption of “Agentic AI”—systems capable of autonomous task execution rather than just text generation. Following the late-2025 “AI Safety & Innovation Act” in the U.S., major players like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic released exclusive enterprise suites that complied with new transparency standards. This led to a record-breaking Q4 for software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks.
The “Agentic AI” Boom and Regulatory Clarity
