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AI agents are proliferating in pharma, but taming them may be the next frontier
AI agents have moved from pilots to practice: 14% of large enterprises report partial or full deployments and 23% are piloting, according to the “Rise of agentic AI” report from Capgemini. But as adoption ticks up, trust in fully autonomous agents slid from 43% to 27%...
The Observability of Observability – O’Reilly
Despite the promise of AIOps, the dream of fully automated, self-healing IT environments remains elusive. Generative AI tools may be the solution that finally abstracts away enough of the workload to get there. However, today’s reality is far more complex. Internet...
Enterprise technology customers look to AI, efficiency to combat uncertainty | Constellation Research Inc.
Enterprise technology companies are leveraging artificial intelligence and technology to drive efficiencies designed to offset everything from tariffs and inflation to growth investments. Go to Source
Your AI Strategy Needs More Than a Single Leader
In boardrooms around the world, a familiar question keeps surfacing: Who should lead our AI efforts? Go to Source
Our view on digital sovereignty
From geopolitical shocks to domestic policy, leaders of governments and large organisations are at last facing the reality of the network era: the digital foundations our public services and economies are built on are more powerful than ever. Yet our democratic...
EAI – EAI Beyond explainability
As intelligent systems become embedded in everyday learning—offering corrections, rephrasings, summaries, even prompts for reflection—the quality of student work often improves. But in that improvement, something important may be lost: the visible trace of human...
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ – WSJ
If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant? Go to Source
Together we are stronger – Capgemini, agentic AI and human teaming
Striking the human-agent balance is going to be a goal for enterprises everywhere in the coming years... Go to Source
(7) Post | LinkedIn
The old timers who built the early web are coding with AI like it's 1995. Think about it: They gave blockchain the sniff test and walked away. Ignored crypto (and yeah, we're not rich now). NFTs got a collective eye roll. But AI? Different story. The same folks who...
How digital twins framework could help ground agentic AI context
The Digital Twin Consortium’s new Agent AI Capabilities framework could help contextualize requirements for the agentic fad. It will also expand the... Go to Source
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