89% of AI Agent Pilots Never Reach Production
New data from Deloitte, HCLTech, and Nasuni shows the AI agent production gap widened to 89%. Enterprises are now actively rolling back deployed agents.
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AI Agents in Production Succeed 56.6% of the Time
The 2026 agent numbers look contradictory: 46% of POCs reach production, 14% scale, 5% show P&L impact, and telemetry says deployed agents succeed 56.6% of tasks. They measure four different gates of one funnel. Here is the reconciliation and the habits of the minority that scales.
HBR’s Framework Is Right: AI Agents Aren’t Tools — They’re Team Members
Source: “To Scale AI Agents Successfully, Think of Them Like Team Members” — Rahul Telang, Muhammad Zia Hydari, and Raja Iqbal. Harvard Business Review, March 23, 2026.
Harvard Business Review published something important this week. The article is by three Wharton researchers — Rahul Telang, Muhammad Zia Hydari, and Raja Iqbal — and
RSAC 2026: Every Attack Involves AI. And Nobody Owns the Defense.
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* Introduction: The Week Capability Outpaced Control
* Section 1 — The Offense Picture: What SANS Presented at RSAC
* Section 2 — The Defense Gap: Nobody Owns Agent Access
* Section 3 — What Good Looks Like: Early Responses Worth Watching
* Section 4 — The Leadership Imperative: Board-Level Discipline
* Close: The Question Every
This Week in AI: The Battle for Control
Every week I comb through hundreds of AI headlines so you don't have to. This week? One theme dominated everything: the battle for control.
Control over infrastructure. Control over enterprise distribution. Control over developer workflows. And — most alarmingly — control over autonomous agents that are starting to act on
4 New AI Agent Security Models That Shipped This Week (Framework)
This week, 4 fundamentally new approaches to AI agent security shipped — none of which existed 6 months ago. Role-based access is dead for agents. Here's what replaces it.
On March 18, a rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data for
5 Questions Every Board Should Ask About AI Agent Governance
McKinsey says 80% of organizations have encountered risky AI agent behavior. NIST, NVIDIA, and the NSA all published agent governance guidance in the same week. Your board probably missed all three.
Here's what they actually said — and what it means for the 5 questions your board should be