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4 in 10 AI agents headed for demotion or the rubbish bin

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Gartner predicts governance struggles to plague rollout of this year’s much-hyped technology

Forty percent of organizations are set to demote or decommission AI agents as they hit problems with governing the heavily hyped technology.

Or so says Gartner, which reckons that creating a uniform governance system for all AI agents without considering their level of autonomy or scope can lead to a failure of the approach to business automation.

AI agents make calls to LLMs to understand user requests or instructions in natural language and then interact with and update application data. The technology has been hyped by application giants including SAP, Oracle, Workday and Salesforce over the last year.

SAP, for example, recently launched its Autonomous Enterprise concept for the future of its business applications. CEO Christian Klein promised it could “anchor AI agents in the business processes, data and governance so they can deliver accurate,...

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Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app

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Germany and Spain push back on Brussels’ plans to ban Huawei gear bloc-wide

Berlin and Madrid are resisting the European Commission’s push for binding legislation on Huawei and ZTE, citing Beijing-retaliation risk and the cost of AI-infrastructure build-out. Germany and Spain are leading opposition inside the European Council to the European Commission’s draft plan to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment from

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YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not

TL;DR YouTube will automatically detect and label videos with significant photorealistic AI content, moving beyond its voluntary creator disclosure system. Labels are moving to a more prominent position and will be permanent for content made with YouTube’s own tools or verified by C2PA metadata. YouTube has announced that

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Airis Labs comes out of stealth with $60M and a video-intelligence pitch to defence agencies

The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC. Airis Labs, the defence-AI startup that has spent the past two and a half years operating in stealth, emerged publicly on Tuesday

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Here’s how Google is responding to Fitbit users who don’t like the new Health app

Germany and Spain push back on Brussels’ plans to ban Huawei gear bloc-wide

YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not

Airis Labs comes out of stealth with $60M and a video-intelligence pitch to defence agencies