IBM's Bob coding agent now runs air-gapped inside customer networks on two supported local models, Nvidia's Nemotron and Poolside's Laguna. Banks can keep their code in-house, though fully local work runs on a shorter model list than the Claude, Mistral and Granite mix IBM pitches for Bob.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
PeakMetrics' AI Perceptions replays customer-chosen prompts through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity and scores the answers against criteria the customer writes. Citation tracing works only when the model searched the web.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives78
- Confidence52
The organization that filed it told the AEPD that the agent searched for flaws, logged in, kept hunting bugs inside the application and then altered personal data and opened invoices, and the regulator has not yet investigated.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Physical Superintelligence launches with $58 million, though the number that matters is the $15 million probe now riding on unreviewed physics its software produced in three days of mostly autonomous work.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives74
- Confidence50
Its CEO expected pilots and internal champions, and got neither. What he got was per-seat spend nobody had totalled and outputs nobody had checked.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives86
- Confidence52
The startup says its neural-operator model took 5 trillion data units in one prompt. It has published no test protocol, no benchmark and no customers, and a rival raised $12 billion.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 43%
- Operator
- Operator 25%
- Investor
- Investor 32%
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives72
- Confidence64
No AI-specific rule governs advisors, but Regulation S-P and the books-and-records rule already do. ACA Group's survey says most firms have no policy for what vendors do with client data.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives68
- Confidence46
AWS published the architecture behind Fanatics Betting and Gaming's support agents. The binding constraint is not query volume but that Indiana and New Jersey have different correct answers.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives86
- Confidence55
A Canadian clinic-receptionist vendor split-tested four TTS engines on live patient calls. The engine its own team ranked first in blind listening had the worst completion rate.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption33
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence41
A controlled evaluation across four benchmarks found centralized coordination lifted financial reasoning 80.9%, while every multi-agent variant tested made strict sequential planning worse.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62
- Confidence52
A developer audited the IAM policy on his own Bedrock agent and found one statement scoped to a single secret and another that reaches every Claude model, in every region Bedrock runs.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives25
- Confidence58
A dev.to build log for KnowBase AI publishes the load-bearing parts: retrieval scoped by workspaceId, chunks that keep a pointer home, and citations you can click. The retriever is the swappable half.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives62
- Confidence47
Luna documented the problem, warned the worker and arranged training, then lost track of the attendance policy it wrote itself. Humans supplied the prompt and signed the termination.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72
- Confidence42
A study of 1,048 cited sources found advisor-owned sites at 45%, more than five times the share held by banks and wirehouses. Asked the same question twice, ChatGPT changed answers 45% of the time.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives76
- Confidence38
A reported China-only Apple model built with Alibaba means the same framework call can now return different answers by region, with no documentation to explain why.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives58
- Confidence38