
Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit
Capability is no longer the constraint. Reliability, transparency and benchmark validity are — and all three are getting worse.
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AI's next bottleneck isn't the models — it's whether agents can think together
Cisco's Vijoy Pandey on the infrastructure gap holding back next-gen AI: agents can be stitched together, but there's no shared context or intent.
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LLM-referred traffic converts at 30-40% — and most enterprises aren't optimizing for it
AI agents don't rank content — they cite it. Most enterprise content is already invisible in agent-driven queries, and the companies getting ahead aren't doing anything exotic.
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How MassMutual and Mass General Brigham turned AI pilot sprawl into production results
A 175-year-old insurer and a major academic medical center share the governance playbook that ended pilot chaos and got AI into production.
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Intuit's AI agents hit 85% repeat usage. The secret was keeping humans involved
After shipping AI to 3 million customers, Intuit found the unlock wasn't better chatbots — it was knowing when to hand off to a human expert.
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The three disciplines separating AI agent demos from real-world deployment
Enterprises are getting AI agents to 80–90% autonomy in production without multi-year data overhauls. Here's the methodology.
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Why enterprises are replacing generic AI with tools that know their users
The bar for enterprise AI just got a lot higher — and most tools aren't clearing it.
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LangChain's CEO argues that better models alone won't get your AI agent to production
The real barrier between agent demo and production deployment isn't model capability — it's the harness around it, LangChain's Harrison Chase says.
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Intuit is betting its 40 years of small business data can outlast the SaaSpocalypse
Intuit lost 42% of its market cap to the SaaSpocalypse. Here's what it says AI agents can't replace.
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Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing security controls
AI agents now have more access to enterprise systems than any other software — and MCP is making them harder to secure, not easier. Zendesk and Resolve AI on why existing frameworks aren't built for this.
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8 billion tokens a day forced AT&T to rethink AI orchestration — and cut costs by 90%
AT&T's chief data officer shares how rearchitecting around small language models and multi-agent stacks cut AI costs by 90% at 8 billion tokens a day.
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When accurate AI is still dangerously incomplete
LexisNexis' chief AI officer explains why standard RAG fails in high-stakes legal AI — and how graph RAG, planner agents, and reflection agents are closing the gap on accuracy, citation quality, and completeness.
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