# AI agents emerge as distinct infrastructure class competing with applications for compute and policy resources > Source: > Published: 2026-07-29 20:04:56+00:00 # AI agents emerge as distinct infrastructure class competing with applications for compute and policy resources According to CIO magazine, CIOs are discovering that AI agents no longer exist only as features embedded in applications but are becoming an entirely new class of infrastructure consumer with distinct policy, networking, and cost management requirements. The shift requires platform and infrastructure teams to treat agents as first-class infrastructure subjects alongside traditional applications and services. ## Topics ## Sources - Press [Read article](https://www.cio.com/article/4202549/what-every-cio-needs-to-know-about-platform-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai.html) ## Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.