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Concentric AI's Madhu Shashanka says the gap between 80% reporting personal AI gains and 37% reporting any EBIT impact is a coordination failure. His argument puts mapping how deployed agents hand work to each other ahead of buying more of them.
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Jabali AI founder Vatsal Bhardwaj argues that the engineering around a model explains the 95% of enterprise AI pilots that MIT found showed no P&L impact. His five rebuilds in two years point to a standing budget, on evidence from one games company.
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The July 28 incident report puts a number on how often frontier agents acted on the live internet without permission, though the permissive test conditions that produced it limit what it settles about a booking flow.
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Amirtha Saminathan, who led an AI assistant build at Fortune 50 scale, blames post-pilot failure on data and ownership, citing MIT's 95% zero-return finding. Leaders approving one now choose when to pay for production standards, in a slower pilot or a later rebuild.
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Only 31% of technical leaders in a CloudBees survey could tie AI spending to a business result, Sivense founder Illia Smoliienko writes in Forbes. He argues that a team that has not timed where its work waits cannot tell whether the tools sped up the stage holding it back.
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Giles Whiting, CEO of orchestration vendor Decisions, says enterprises pay inference to re-answer fixed questions millions of times in production. The same architecture also makes a routing decision hard to reproduce for an auditor.
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Simform CTO Hiren cites an S&P Global survey in which 42% of enterprises abandoned most AI initiatives before production, up from 17% a year earlier. Why those projects were dropped is not in the survey. That explanation is his own, out of client work.
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Shahen Minasyan, CTO at Twin Peaks Inc., argues that the FBI's $20.9 billion in 2025 reported fraud losses, up 26%, grew in places where identity controls did their job. Federal agencies say their own payments-fraud data is too fragmented to size that category.
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Gartner found 72% of CIOs at break-even or worse on AI and expects more than 40% of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027 on cost. A platform founder argues both figures show that every new agent rebuilds the same plumbing.
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Writing for the Forbes Tech Council, Phenomenon Studio co-founder Polina says fintech apps can adapt insights and notifications while navigation, balance placement and transaction buttons stay fixed. Her readiness test starts at a thousand monthly active users.
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Writing for the Forbes Technology Council, a Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions executive names the posture build on buy and rests it on an unmeasured claim that operating costs are falling more slowly than build costs.
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Binny Gill argues in a Forbes council column that firms are paying reasoning-model rates for rule-following tasks. The two studies he cites measure consultants and a research router. Neither one measured an enterprise bill.
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Aditi Khullar crosses how an engineer creates impact with where they find meaning. The quadrant she calls the most conflicted is also, she writes, the most common profile for senior ICs promoted into management.
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A call-tracking CEO puts zero-click searches at 68% of Google queries in the first four months of 2026 and blames AI overviews. The gap he describes is older than the trend, and the fix he proposes reaches only part of it.
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Writing for the Forbes Technology Council, Proofpoint's Sumit uses three incidents since 2023 to argue that access control answers whether an action is allowed while agents need a check on whether it should happen at all.
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A Forbes Tech Council piece by Avature's chief executive argues the Act's high-risk hiring rules now set the benchmark for global employers. The survey behind the argument is his own company's, and it finds most are still piloting.
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Srini Srinivasan argues that evaluations run at comfortable utilization only measure the flat part of the queueing curve. His alternative asks for p99.9 under conditions a two-week bake-off has to manufacture.
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On one utility program, operations, billing, payments and finance all asked for fresher data in the same words. Cognizant's Govinda now asks what decision the data triggers before asking how fast a platform can move it.
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DT Cloud's Tolga Dinçer says a financial institution confirmed its data sat locally, then gave less clear answers on root access, encryption keys and update authority, and he wants boards to trace that chain on one live AI system first.
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Kousik Rajendran cites the split in a Forbes post to argue that agents break linear change management, because the model behind an unchanged API can shift without a release. His fix is a five-stage loop.
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