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Linebreak and New Icon join forces to deliver innovative real-time solutions
Linebreak UK, a leader in enterprise real-time solutions, is pleased to announce a merger with New Icon, specialists in design-led software and AI engineering. The merger will create a focused capability enabling enterprises to become real-time businesses for efficiency and growth in a fast-moving, distributed world.
Bristol-based New Icon brings 15+ years’ experience in delivering ambitious IoT, digital and AI solutions through agile design-thinking and engineering. Linebreak leverages decades of architecture expertise and a unique technology ecosystem, enabling enterprises to harness distributed and edge AI solutions.
Linebreak CEO, Dolo Miah, explained, “together Linebreak and New Icon will deliver the next
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AI Agents Are Coming. But Are They Actually Useful Yet?
The idea of autonomous AI agents - digital entities that can plan, reason, and act across tools without human oversight - sounds like science fiction finally arriving. The pitch is seductive: agents that book your meetings, answer customer queries, build prototypes, write code, and optimise systems without you lifting a finger.
But if you’ve tried using them in practice, especially in complex enterprise settings, you’ll know that reality isn’t quite there yet.
At New Icon, we’ve been watching the rise of agentic AI closely. We’ve even begun integrating controlled agent behaviours into some of our products. But let’s be honest:
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