Shares of Nokia (NOK +11.65%) were up by 12.1% at 2:30 p.m. ET today. The Finnish telecom equipment and services veteran reached a fresh multi-year high, revisiting prices last seen in the spring of 2009.

The jump was powered by (yep, you guessed it) a new Nokia service that puts AI agents in charge of network management.

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What Nokia’s agentic AI actually does

Nokia’s agentic AI tools are now available both to internet service providers and consumer-grade home networks. Automated tools can tune up the network’s performance, take action based on voice commands, and more. The multi-step analysis of agentic AI systems even lets Nokia’s platforms diagnose and repair network problems without involving human…