A developer has published a small, drop-in Python pattern for capping agent-loop costs by wrapping each model call in a per-task budget that records token spend by step and raises a BudgetExceeded err…
Justin Johnsen, lead technical architect at KPMG, said AI has shifted his forward-deployed engineering role away from hand-writing code toward gathering context and refining intent, and that on one cl…
PwC's Washington DC managing partner Jeanelle Johnson said clients now expect consulting deliverables in roughly half the time they did a year ago, citing work that once took eight to 10 weeks being e…
Vietnam's National Technology Innovation Fund (NATIF) opened applications on Sept. 16 for its 2026 AI technology innovation program, offering businesses and organizations up to VND3 billion, or about …
KPMG's Q2 AI Pulse Survey found the share of organizations in the driving-adoption phase rose from 13% to 22%, yet only about a third say AI roles, responsibilities, and processes are clear and well m…
Forty-eight percent of Singapore employers named exploring, adopting or enhancing AI as a workforce priority for 2027, up from 39% for 2026, according to the Singapore National Employers Federation, e…
Private investment in the United States is forecast to grow 40% in real terms between 2021 and the end of 2027, versus just under 12% for France, Germany, Italy and the UK, according to Oxford Economi…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), open-sourced in November 2024, surpassed 97 million installations by March 2026 with over 12,000 MCP servers online, and was donated to the Agentic AI Foundat…
Ernst & Young (EY) will spend $100 million on bonuses of up to $25,000 for U.S. employees who demonstrate human skills like business acumen, judgment, and adaptability alongside AI experimentation, as…
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…
Enterprise AI agent adoption is surging, with employee adoption at 56% of organizations, up from 23% in Q1, and organizations orchestrating multiple agents across workflows rising from 9% to 18% in th…
Enterprises are increasingly rejecting the traditional approach of moving proprietary data to frontier AI models, opting instead for AI systems that operate within their own data environments, accordi…
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…
GPTZero co-founder Alex Cui argues that AI-generated content, or 'AI slop,' will persist despite watermarking efforts, citing that 44% of LinkedIn content is currently AI-generated and could reach 100…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, and its CEO Nicolas Kopp says AI is reshaping consulting firm hiring by reducing routine…
Graduate job vacancies in the UK fell 45.6% year-on-year to 8,383 in July, a record low, according to recruitment firm Adzuna, as employers cut entry-level roles and turn to AI. The decline, which und…
The World Bank's World Development Report 2026 finds that developing economies have more to gain and less to fear from AI than richer ones, with only 4.5% of jobs in low- and middle-income countries a…
Physical AI startups raised $47.4 billion across 521 deals in H1 2026, up nearly 80% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase. Castelion, a hypersonic weapons startup, closed over $1 billion in Se…
Rillet, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2024, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to over $200 million in 14 months. The company'…