Governance, accountability frameworks, and human-agent relationships—not technical capabilities—are the primary bottlenecks in scaling AI agents, according to ZDNET's analysis of surveys from Deloitte…
Three surveys from Deloitte, KPMG, and Accenture reveal that while companies are rapidly adopting agentic AI, only 15% of organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated multi-agent deployments, and j…
OpenAI and more than 100 companies, including Accenture, Anthropic, Capital One, Google, Microsoft, and Visa, released a letter Thursday warning that AI models could soon enable sophisticated cyberatt…
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services on August 25, 2026, targeting capital markets and corporate banking with purpose-built agents, secure connectors, and a Financial Researc…
Google has launched Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, an agentic AI platform for capital markets and corporate banking that includes purpose-built financial skills, secure MCP connectors, a Fi…
Google launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a purpose-built AI suite for law firms and corporate legal departments, featuring legal-specific skills, secure MCP connectors, pre-built agents, and an op…
78% of cybersecurity jobs now require AI skills, according to a new report from the AI Workforce Consortium, which found that between October 2025 and March 2026, the share of G7 cybersecurity posting…
Hackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-64849, a critical unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in MLflow, an open-source AI development platform used by thousands of organ…
On August 20, Google launched Antigravity extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, and Zed, bringing its autonomous coding agent to popular editors after a May forced IDE pivot drew 345 Hacker News comments…
Consulting firms are racing to position themselves as 'AI-native' to win business, with KPMG US CEO Tim Walsh stating the firm is now a tech company delivering audit, tax, and advisory services, and A…
The AI Workforce Consortium reported on August 20 that 28.5% of G7 cybersecurity job postings required AI skills, up from 14.2% a year earlier, and that senior-titled security roles grew 65% in the si…
Palo Alto Networks and NTT DATA announced a multiyear global alliance targeting $1 billion in joint business by the end of 2029, pairing Palo Alto's security platforms with NTT DATA's consulting and m…
The AI Workforce Consortium, founded by Cisco with Accenture, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and others, released a report finding that cybersecurity job postings requiring AI skills have doubled year-over-y…
The consulting industry faces a reckoning as AI threatens the billable hour, erasing $100 billion in market value from giants like Accenture. Firms are betting that human judgment and client trust wil…
Singapore Computer Society (SCS) president Lim Bee Kwan announced a new cross-industry AI skills pathway at the Tech³ Forum 2026 on Thursday (Aug 20), designed to align learning pathways, industry-rec…
An enterprise internal developer platform typically run by a ~60-person product organisation costs roughly $7.5 million a year, and organizations must assess agent-native readiness and ROI before rebu…
OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak initiative, delivering a specialized cybersecurity model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, to select partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos, and Cloudflare. The m…
Writer, the enterprise AI platform used by Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, launched Palmyra X6 on August 6, 2026, cutting AI agent costs per task by 52% from $0.25 to $0.12, with execution speed improv…
Accenture's Change Reinvented research found that 95% of organizations underwent at least two transformations in three years, while only 30% of C-suite leaders expressed confidence in their change cap…
A security researcher testing OpenAI's verified defender access found that the company's own benchmark data shows a stark disparity: verified individual defenders achieve a 2.0% completion rate on adv…