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Agentic security: Enterprises rely on OpenAI most to secure AI agents, and those that do are nearly three times as likely to say attackers are ahead

OpenAI's guardrails secure 40% of enterprise AI agents, but 43% of these organizations say attackers are ahead. 59% have faced security incidents or near-misses.

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October 5, 2026

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AI infrastructure and compute: 48% of organizations running AI in production name a Google platform as their primary AI platform, more than twice OpenAI's share

48% of enterprises running AI in production choose Google as their primary platform, outpacing OpenAI and Azure, according to a VentureBeat survey.

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October 5, 2026

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Agentic reliability and evaluations: Fewer enterprises plan to let AI agents ship production changes on automated checks alone — 56% allow it or plan to, down from 75% in July

56% of enterprises with AI agents allow automated production changes, down from 75% in July, highlighting trust issues in AI evaluations.

VB Staff

October 5, 2026

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Agentic context layers: 64% of enterprises traced a confidently wrong AI agent answer to problems in their own company data in the past six months

64% of enterprises traced AI errors to data issues. Semantic layers help detect these errors, affecting decision-making processes.

VB Staff

October 5, 2026

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Agentic orchestration: Model makers are selling their own AI agent platforms, but only 2% of enterprises say the model was the main reason they chose one

Survey shows 78% of enterprises value flexibility and control in AI platforms over model alignment, influencing orchestration decisions.

VB Staff

October 5, 2026

Agentic reliability and evaluations: Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least

108 enterprises on agent evals: The ones who already shipped a bad answer are the most eager to cut humans out next, not the most cautious.

VB Staff

August 12, 2026

Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time — and isolate high-risk agents less than one in five

Enterprises have built the controls that watch and permission AI agents, but not the one that limits damage when those controls fail.

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August 12, 2026

Infrastructure and compute: Enterprises are buying AI compute for speed while flying blind on what it costs

Performance and GPU availability have overtaken cost as top buying criteria, even as most GPU fleets run at half capacity or less, new Pulse Research finds.

VB Staff

August 12, 2026

Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost

107 enterprises, one shared blind spot: nobody can say what their AI agents will cost until the invoice shows up.

VB Staff

August 12, 2026

Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't

Enterprise AI agents are giving confident, wrong answers more than once, most often at the companies best equipped to catch it.

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August 12, 2026

The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs

AI infrastructure spending accelerates, yet most enterprises can't measure its economics. Only 21% run AI at scale, while 64% plan to switch providers.

VB Staff

July 23, 2026

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

AI agents in 107 enterprises face security gaps, with over half reporting incidents. Identity and isolation controls lag behind agent autonomy.

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July 23, 2026