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Salt Labs found 49.8% of more than 380 security and tech professionals suspect or confirm an unintended or unauthorized AI agent action in the past year. Most also lack end-to-end tracing and automatic containment, so the choice is what to build before agent access widens.
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Google security engineers have published 'Beyond Zero', a five-principle security model for AI agents, ITPro reported. Google's authors call it a new paradigm and an outside expert calls it an evolution of Zero Trust, and the gap sets how much access work carries over.
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IT advisers told ITPro the fixed PC refresh cycle is splitting by device and user role, while IDC projects a 20% year-on-year fall in PC sales. The one large fleet in the reporting stretched its cycle from three years to four, so the evidence so far points to a longer calendar with exceptions.
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Riverbed's survey found 90% of IT leaders want agentic AI running autonomous operations within two years. But 77% will not let agents make operational decisions without a human, and just one in five run automated operations now.
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NetApp has named Liam Varndell and Simon Mead as its new UK&I senior directors for solutions engineering and partner sales. Both have started meeting partners and customers, so what they hear in those talks will shape NetApp's regional channel plans.
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UK business take-up of AI tools has risen only 0.2% since 2023, ONS figures show, even though model reliability has improved significantly. An ITPro article argues the gap now turns on channel partners changing their skills and the way they pitch their services.
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