IANS and Artico Search surveyed more than 500 security executives and found 69% putting AI first for net-new dollars in a year when only 45% of security budgets grew at all. At least 24 of those points sit in organizations where the budget held flat or shrank.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence45
Mapbox's September 17 release turns live traffic and a 250-million-place index into function calls an agent invokes for itself. Who is allowed to invoke them is still the integrator's problem.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence55
Felicis led the $18M, which follows a $5.5M seed in July 2025 and came with no valuation. Magentic says its agents draft supplier messages, route purchases and clear invoices, with humans brought in at key review points.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption26
- Hype gap+26
- Incentives80
- Confidence52
Vista's more than 400 staff in the UK and Ireland give TRG the engineers who turn up when a terminal or kiosk dies, filling the part of the device lifecycle that remote tools and depot repair leave open.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Formerly CYTRIX, the company says more than 25 agents exploit, rank, route and then retest customer systems continuously. The accuracy and growth figures are self-reported, and the 0.1% false-positive rate comes without a sample or a period.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives80
- Confidence58
Enigmata's $6.5 million seed from Blockchange Ventures funds a cryptographic transform that standard machine-learning pipelines are meant to consume unchanged, with the accuracy and speed figures coming from the company's own unpublished tests.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives80
- Confidence58
R2 was co-designed with GAC Aion so 33 sensors could feed one computer across three vehicle domains, and the Beijing and Guangzhou trial tests whether owning the car and the dispatch network beats buying either, though no intervention rate came with it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives80
- Confidence50
NODA AI says the Department of War awarded it $100 million. The government notice describes an open prize challenge worth up to $100 million across multiple awards.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+68
- Incentives78
- Confidence60