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Market surveys funded by software vendors and published as sector insight, and the incentive questions they raise.
Dataiku ships Agent Management in October with connectors into Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft and Google agent runtimes, metered per agent monitored. The bill grows with every agent the inventory turns up.
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Basware's Jason Kurtz asks who answers when an AI agent approves the wrong payment. The Forrester study his own company paid for cannot tell him: a center of excellence is a coordination capability, and it does not identify who owns the outcome when an agent gets it wrong.
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Attack Chaining ships in OpenAEV v3 and reads each action's output at runtime rather than following a script, which changes what a validation report is for and how much of it you should expect to receive.
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A vendor-commissioned survey of more than 400 bank and credit union executives describes losses arriving through the dispute queue rather than the login screen. How much of the rise is new customer behaviour is not established.
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A vendor-commissioned survey of enterprise IT buyers finds monitoring bills, not model quality, ending agentic AI projects. The arithmetic behind the forecasts is worse than the headline.
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A vendor-commissioned test capped every engine at 512 MB. Neo4j Community cleared 10 concurrent clients and returned four of 744 operations at 40, which no latency table would have shown.
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A vendor survey says millennials are the most active donors right now. It also explains why the organisations sitting on boomer money are stuck.
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