Agentic AI has crossed the threshold from concept to capital deployment in the last 60 days, with multiple seed rounds, payer pivots, and new identity-security research reshaping how CIOs must architect autonomous workflows. The strategic question is no longer whether to deploy AI agents, but how to govern non-human identities, fund the work, and prevent agent sprawl from replicating the EHR-era integration debt CIOs spent two decades unwinding.