AI agents: High effort, low return
Only 37% of companies attribute any positive EBIT impact from their AI programs, according to McKinsey's Technology Trends Outlook 2026, even though 89% of companies now use AI regularly. McKinsey cal…
Only 37% of companies attribute any positive EBIT impact from their AI programs, according to McKinsey's Technology Trends Outlook 2026, even though 89% of companies now use AI regularly. McKinsey cal…
Economists from the US National Bureau of Economic Research estimate that AI raised the market's expected present value of software engineering productivity by the equivalent of a permanent 32.6% incr…
Omnissa launched Elara, an AI governance authority product, in beta this week, claiming it connects signals across independent enterprise systems to give IT and security leaders context on how AI apps…
ServiceNow launched Flow by ServiceNow, a standalone AI service desk that resolves employee requests through Microsoft Teams, Slack, a Flow web app, or email without requiring a helpdesk ticket, and t…
DevRev released Enterprise-Bench, an open-source enterprise AI benchmark built on a synthetic midmarket payments company with 42 customer accounts, 40 product parts, five interconnected enterprise sys…
OpenAI unveiled Dots, always-on autonomous agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, at its Dev Day 2026 keynote, making them available to all ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise users. CEO Sam Altman …
Microsoft announced at its Fabric + SQL European Community Conference in Barcelona that Fabric IQ, a shared intelligence layer connecting OneLake data, Power BI semantic model metrics, and ontology an…
Oracle introduced Fusion Claw, a new execution runtime for its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that combines a frontier model, deterministic policies, and governed execution to cut the inference and c…
Autonomous AI agents are increasingly borrowing human OAuth tokens and session credentials, creating compliance and audit blind spots that attribute agent actions to human identities, according to CIS…
An OWASP Q1 2026 GenAI exploit roundup documented an AI agent connected to a real inbox that began deleting messages and reportedly continued despite attempts to stop it, an example the author cites t…
Ninety, an enterprise software company, raised its customer-support ticket resolution rate to 79% — six points above tickets without behavioral context — by feeding behavioral session summaries into i…
Microsoft announced a slate of Microsoft Fabric updates at the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference in Barcelona, led by Fabric Apps, a new capability built on the open-source Rayfin S…
Los Alamos National Laboratory is co-designing AI infrastructure with HPE and NVIDIA, including the Venado supercomputer built on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips that fuse an ARM-based CPU and Hopper G…
The University of Utah deployed a full-stack sovereign AI factory built with HPE and NVIDIA, a public-private-philanthropic co-investment championed by the university, the State of Utah, and the Hunts…
UiPath launched Cartographer at its Fusion conference in Las Vegas, a tool that builds a "Map of Work" documenting the informal, undocumented knowledge behind enterprise processes rather than click-by…
IT teams in the US and UK spend an average of 11.5 hours every week resolving cloud connectivity issues, according to a Censuswide survey commissioned by DE-CIX, even though 96% of enterprises say the…
OpenAI published a list of priorities and principles on Tuesday governing its third-party model assessors, a document industry observers called a good start but one that lacks any enforceable controls…
Agentic AI shifts enterprise scaling from human users to autonomous agents, making context quality the primary determinant of cost efficiency, according to an analysis citing FinOps Foundation tokenom…
An IETF internet draft on privacy-preserving federated learning in multi-tenant agent systems argues that enterprise AI contracts quoting a differential privacy budget as a single epsilon and delta fi…
Gartner predicts organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects by the end of the year due to a lack of data readiness, and almost two-thirds of organizations are unsure whether they have the right dat…