The May to July figures come from Microsoft and the competing vendors are unnamed. Miss counts are rising across reporting periods, Defender's included, and the third-party layer caught 0.30% of malicious mail.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives85
- Confidence55
Microsoft fixed 974 flaws in September and two were already under attack, but both need an attacker who is already on the machine, while the twenty bugs Dustin Childs classes as wormable need no login at all.
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives60
- Confidence71
Microsoft traced the failure to recent changes it had made to the service and spent the day testing whether reverting them would help. For anyone mapping dependencies, it was a cheap rehearsal.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption40
- Hype gap−15
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Perplexity's Personal Computer feature now runs on Windows 10 and 11 for paying subscribers, and the ZDNet hands-on suggests its output is only as trustworthy as the person who can already check it.
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives55
- Confidence44
All ten injected runs in Forcepoint's test produced the manipulated summary. The remedy it recommends puts a human back on the original email, which is most of the work the assistant was bought to remove.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
An employee memo described by BI puts Meta into agentic commerce with a subscription price attached, and before any merchant can price a delegated buyer at checkout, it first has to figure out how to spot one.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives66
- Confidence33
A dev.to team traced four reproducible signature failures to Word's layout engine, a dark-mode color pass, a macOS Mail checkbox and a length limit. Only the checkbox is out of reach of anything you can emit.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives75
- Confidence52
The Hatch tier buys capacity, not intelligence, and the alternative it answers runs free on a user's own machine. Whatever Meta finally charges becomes the ceiling everyone else gets priced against.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+41
- Incentives62
- Confidence38
Three separate 2026 releases get discussed as one product. Only the middle one, a sandboxed runtime called Workers, actually moves the line between knowledge tool and automation platform.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives46
- Confidence35