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80% of AI Projects Fail: The Hidden Cause
5 studies (Gartner, MIT, RAND, BCG, McKinsey) reveal why 80% of enterprise AI investments fail in 2026. The proven 5-step framework to join the 20% that succeed.
By Rajesh Beri·May 27, 2026·15 min read
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News·Fathom
Superhuman Bought Fathom. Only Past Calls Keep Fathom's Terms.
September 15, 2026 · 12 minNews·Glass Imaging
OpenAI Reportedly Buys Glass Imaging. Who Retunes Your Next Camera?
September 14, 2026 · 10 minNews·LLM data residency
LLM Data Residency: Which Providers Actually Keep Data In Region
In-region LLM inference costs about 10% on every platform. What differs is what the promise excludes (abuse monitoring, batch, caching, control-plane metadata) and whether you can enforce it by policy.
September 14, 2026 · 17 minNews·GPU insurance
When the Colo's Chillers Fail, the GPU Loss Is Yours
S&P says there is no obvious insurance product for the GPUs inside AI data centers, and colo agreements often cap the operator's liability at three months of fees. If you own a GPU cluster in someone else's hall, the gap between that cap and the hardware is yours to close.
September 14, 2026 · 11 minNews·RubyGems
OpenAI-Linked Agents Ran Code via a Docs Build. Sandbox Yours.
Agents researchers tie to OpenAI got code execution on RubyDoc.info without a zero-day: the docs build ran each gem's own .yardopts. Any builder that honours third-party package config belongs in the CI sandbox tier.
September 14, 2026 · 12 minNews·Cognition
Cognition Hired Dioxus. Blitz's Publishers Went With It.
The Dioxus team announced it was joining Cognition on September 10. Every crates.io owner of Blitz's core crates and two of Taffy's three now work there — and Cloudflare's Kitesurf agent browser is built on Blitz.
September 14, 2026 · 11 minProduct·Governance & Security
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JFrog AI Catalog
JFrogGovern the models, MCP servers, skills and plugins your AI coding agents consume
Event·conference
SEP14
Hybrid
Splunk .conf26
Splunk's user conference, rebuilt around the agentic SOC
Sep 14–17Past
Product·Automation & Workflows
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Sidetrade Aimie
SidetradeAutonomous AI agents for order-to-cash: collections calls, cash application and credit risk
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News·span of control
Meta Tried 50 Employees per Manager. Now It Wants Managers Back.
Meta built its Applied AI division at up to 50 employees per manager. Six months later it wants managers back. Size 2027 spans by the manager work AI did not absorb.
September 13, 2026 · 11 min
News·agent authorization
Agent Authorization: Standing Privilege Is the Whole Problem
Standing credentials are the root of agent risk. How AgentCore, Aembit, Auth0, Permit.io and Cerbos handle delegation, per-call policy, approvals, audit and blast radius — and which to buy first.
September 13, 2026 · 22 minNews·Bonfy.AI
Kiteworks Bought Bonfy. Ask for the Terms WAMNET Got.
Kiteworks will keep selling Bonfy.AI 'as a separate solution while it is integrated.' It gave WAMNET Japan and Zivver customers pricing, support and renewal terms in writing. Bonfy buyers should ask for the same.
September 13, 2026 · 9 minEvent·forum
SEP14
In-Person
Forrester Technology & Innovation Forum: Central 2026
"The IT Singularity" — Forrester's Austin forum for CIOs, CDOs and chief AI officers on running AI once it stops being a differentiator
Sep 14–15Past
Product·Business Intelligence
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OpenAI Data Agent
OpenAINatural-language data analysis and dashboards over your warehouse, inside ChatGPT Work
Event·conference
SEP15
Hybrid
Salesforce Dreamforce 2026
Becoming an Agentic Enterprise — Salesforce's annual takeover of Moscone
Sep 15–17Today
News·Skribby
Alianza Bought Skribby. Your Meeting Audio Changed Owners.
Alianza bought Skribby, the meeting-bot API behind 200+ notetaker, sales-intelligence and other meeting apps. Its terms allow assignment at will, its DPA gives no remedy on objection, and five of 13 transcription sub-processors are US-only.
September 13, 2026 · 11 minNews·executive compensation
Sysco Tied Equity Pay to Its AI Cost-Out Push. Net of What?
Sysco tied executive equity to structural cost-out alongside $500 million of AI and technology net cost out. Before you copy it, define the baseline, the run cost, and which dollars belong to a separate synergy target.
September 13, 2026 · 11 minProduct·AI Agents & Orchestration
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Moveworks
Moveworks (a ServiceNow company)Agentic AI assistant and enterprise search for employee IT, HR and finance requests
Event·summit
SEP15
In-Person
AI Infra Summit 2026
Every layer of the AI stack in one room — silicon, interconnect, data centre and model serving, over three days in Santa Clara
Sep 15–17Today
Product·AI Models & APIs
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Abacus.AI Smaug
Abacus.AIOpen-weight Smaug Agentic, Flash and Mini models fine-tuned for long-running enterprise AI agents
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News·Real-SWE
Fable Cost $18 a Fix on Private Code. Flash Cost $8.
On Specific Labs' Real-SWE benchmark of licensed private codebases, Fable 5.1 resolved the most tasks but cost about $17.94 per fix to Gemini 3.8 Flash's $8.01 — and each model fails in its own way, so your review gate should follow the agent you pick.
September 13, 2026 · 14 min
News·GSA OneGov
OpenAI's $1 Deal Ends Sept 30. Put a Ceiling on the Meter.
OpenAI's $1 government pilot ends September 30. Its successor is a $0 licence and 50% off metered tokens, which agencies must fund against a ceiling on a stopgap budget while the Claude and Gemini deals expire the same day.
September 12, 2026 · 11 minNews·AI vendor security review
AI Vendor Security Review: 6 Questions That Change the Answer
Six questions decide an AI vendor security review, and a SOC 2 report answers none of them. How OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and Amazon Bedrock answer each, as of September 2026.
September 12, 2026 · 20 minEvent·conference
SEP15
In-Person
dbt Summit 2026
Coalesce, renamed and rescoped — analytics engineering meets AI-ready data
Sep 15–18Today
Product·AI Models & APIs
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Deep Cogito Cogito v2.1
Deep CogitoMIT-licensed 671B hybrid-reasoning open model with short reasoning chains, plus custom post-training on enterprise data
News·prompt injection
An Eval Sandbox Gave Up Its Keys. Your Gateway Holds Yours.
Anthropic's September 2026 threat report shows attackers prompt-injecting an AI vendor's eval sandbox and LiteLLM-based wrappers to steal production API keys. Any harness or gateway that reads untrusted text while holding a key is a credential store — split, scope and cap those keys.
September 12, 2026 · 11 minNews·MCP
150 MCP Servers Never Started. No Benchmark Shows That.
An unrepaired probability sample of 400 MCP servers found only 48.8% complete an initialize handshake, and 37.5% never start at all. Meanwhile 68.8% of BFCL v4's extracted tool definitions and 85.6% of UltraTool's are exact repeats, against 0.4% for real MCP tools.
September 12, 2026 · 11 minProduct·Governance & Security
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Alice (formerly ActiveFence)
AliceAI red teaming and real-time guardrails for models, apps and agents, built on a decade of adversarial data
Event·expo
SEP15
In-Person
Big Data & AI Paris 2026
Where French IT and data decision-makers come to industrialise AI
Sep 15–16Today
Product·Industry & Government
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Lumafield Quality Agent
LumafieldPhysical-AI quality agent that catches unanticipated manufacturing defects and traces root causes from industrial CT and sensor data
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