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Agentic models burn 5 to 30 times the tokens of a chatbot, and Gartner expects cost per agentic workflow to rise more than fivefold through 2028. The human comparator, meanwhile, is unsourceable.
A2A reached 150 supporting organisations and a stable 1.0 specification in 2026, while MCP shipped a stateless protocol core on 28 July 2026. Most enterprise agent systems need only one of them. Here are five tests that
OpenAI's internal red-teamer beat human red-teamers 84% to 13% and broke a live vending-machine agent. GPT-5.6 Sol now fails 0.05% of those attacks. Here is why a hardened model is not a defence plan, and the seven
Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects canceled by 2027 and MIT found 95% of gen AI pilots delivered no measurable P&L impact. Here is the scoping discipline that gets enterprise agents to production.
On July 30, 2026 Oracle put Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and 3.5 Flash inside Fusion Applications and NetSuite. Here is what the multi-model move means for enterprise AI, data governance, vendor lock-in, and
Agentforce and Copilot Studio price AI agents in different units. We break down the conversation, Flex Credits and per-credit models, the break-even points, and the 2026 prerequisites that move the real bill.
A readiness checklist for governed autonomous desktop agents: sandboxed runtimes, least privilege, human approval gates, audit trails, and evaluation, mapped to the ServiceNow Project Arc and NVIDIA OpenShell stack.
A Zinnov-ProHance study found 92% of India's GCCs are piloting or scaling AI, yet over 70% lack a structured way to prove ROI. Here is a five-dimension, finance-legible framework to measure AI value across maturity
Cohere Command A is a 111B open-weights model with a 256K context, 150% higher throughput than Command R+, and the same $2.50/$10 rate card. A 2026 migration guide, plus where Cohere fits against GPT-5.6 and Claude.
Frontier models cluster within points on every eval, and your workload reorders them. A senior engineer's scorecard for choosing an LLM in 2026: predictability, latency, token economics, and supervision load.
On July 27, 2026, NVIDIA and 36 partners launched the Open Secure AI Alliance and open-sourced the NOOA agent framework. Most of the tooling predates the alliance. Here is what is new, and a decision framework
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027, Gartner says, on escalating cost, unclear value and weak risk controls. A build plan for staying in the surviving 60%.
OpenAI's Secure MCP Tunnel lets ChatGPT, Codex and the Responses API reach a private or on-prem MCP server over an outbound-only HTTPS path, with no inbound ports. How it works, how to set it up, and how to harden it.
Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic on 15 July 2026: 100 engineers, a $1.5 billion valuation, and a Claude-first delivery model. The launch prices the scarcest input in enterprise
OpenAI Presence is a limited-availability, Forward Deployed Engineer-led product with no list price. The Realtime API is self-serve with published rates. Three numbers, and one eligibility question, decide which path
AWS closes Amazon Q Business to new customers on 31 July 2026 and points existing customers at Amazon Quick. The migration runs through Bring Your Own Index, and the access-control defaults change underneath you.
Three vendors now sell an agent that takes a task and returns a finished document. They bill in three incompatible ways, and independent research says reliability still trails capability.
Anthropic's Ode is valued at $1.5 billion; OpenAI's rival venture raised $4 billion at a $10 billion valuation. Both bet that implementation, not models, is the trillion-dollar business. Ode has 100 engineers and works
Agents run heavy queries across your whole organisation. If the data is fragmented, the agent is guessing. Here is what the data layer needs before an agent is worth deploying.
Stanford found RAG-backed legal tools still hallucinate 17-34% of the time. Here is what an enterprise RAG knowledge assistant costs in 2026, which retrieval setup actually works, and how eCorpIT builds one.
Quess Corp's Q1 FY27 report puts India's AI and data analytics supply-demand gap at 36-40%, the widest of any capability. GCCs stopped competing for that pool and started converting the engineers they already employ
Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic have all committed billions to putting their own engineers inside your company. Here is how to decide who should actually deploy your AI, and the conflict each model carries.
On July 2, 2026, Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agent progress had not accelerated as executives expected, after 8,000 layoffs and up to $145 billion of 2026 capex. Gartner puts agent pilot failure at 89%. Six
Google delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17, 2026 after scrapping its base model for a rebuild. The lesson for enterprises is model-roadmap risk, and why a multi-model strategy beats betting on one vendor.
At Google Cloud Next '26, Vertex AI became the Gemini Enterprise agent platform. With 96% of firms running AI agents but only 12% able to govern them, here is what it changes and how it compares to Microsoft and AWS.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 shipped on July 9, 2026 in three tiers, Sol, Terra, and Luna, priced from $1 to $30 per million tokens. How to match each tier to coding, agent, and high-volume workloads by cost.
Sarvam AI became India's newest AI unicorn at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by HCLTech's $150 million bet. What sovereign AI, data residency, and 22-language models mean for enterprise buyers in 2026.
Grok 4.5, from the newly renamed SpaceXAI, is priced at $2/$6 per million tokens and pitched as Opus-class at lower cost. Here is where it fits for enterprise coding and agents, and where it does not, in 2026.
Chinese-built AI models now run 30 to 46% of US enterprise API tokens, up from about 4.5% in early 2025, driven by prices 60 to 90% below OpenAI and Anthropic. The cost case and the governance risks to weigh.
Claude reached general availability in Microsoft Foundry in late June 2026, billed in Claude Consumption Units where 100 CCU equals $1. How CCU conversion works and what it changes for your Azure bill.
Gemini 3.5 Pro entered July 2026 still in limited preview, with no confirmed GA date, benchmarks or final pricing, after slipping from a June target. What enterprise teams evaluating it should do now.
GPT-5.6 reached general availability on July 9, 2026 as three models: Sol at $5, Terra at $2.50 and Luna at $1 per million input tokens. How to pick the right tier for coding, agents and high-volume work.
Microsoft's $2.5 billion Frontier and AWS's $1 billion engineer org are the biggest bets yet that enterprise AI succeeds or fails on deployment, not models. What the vendor plays mean for buyers in 2026.
The majority of enterprise AI agent pilots never reach production, and Gartner expects over 40% cancelled by 2027, mostly for cost and governance reasons, not model quality. Here is how eCorpIT builds agents that ship
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) went public on July 9, 2026, with Luna at $1/$6 per million tokens. We compare the new tiers to Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini, and the levers that cut inference bills 60 to 80 percent.
On 11 May 2026 OpenAI launched DeployCo, a $4 billion company that embeds engineers inside enterprises to ship AI. Here is what it means for AI buyers and the consulting market.
Prompt injection is still OWASP's #1 LLM vulnerability in 2026, and agentic AI turns it into fraud and data theft. This guide shows how to contain it with least privilege, human approval and sandboxed tools.
US firms routed up to 46% of their OpenRouter tokens to Chinese open models in 2026 because they cost 60-90% less. Here is how DeepSeek, Qwen and GLM compare with OpenAI and Google on price, quality and risk.
The EU AI Act's August 2, 2026 milestone is narrower than planned: GPAI enforcement and transparency rules apply, while high-risk obligations moved to December 2, 2027. What enterprises, including Indian firms serving
Most enterprise AI never reaches production, and much that does shows no measurable return. Five delivery lessons tied to what breaks between a working demo and a system real users trust in 2026.
A US export-control directive pulled two frontier AI models offline worldwide in June 2026 with no notice. Five compliance moves for CTOs: dependency mapping, fallback, deemed-export screening, contracts, residency.
Apple runs AFM 3 Cloud Pro on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs inside Google Cloud, refined by Gemini frontier models, while reportedly paying Google about $1 billion a year. What Apple's Google-Nvidia architecture means
JPMorgan runs 450+ AI use cases and IBM's AskHR contains 94% of queries, yet Gartner expects 40% of agentic projects canceled by 2027. Seven agent use cases that reached production in 2026, and three that stalled.
Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by 2027, and production agents succeed about 56.6% of the time. Three engineering lessons from shipping enterprise AI agents in 2026.
From MIT's 95% pilot-failure finding to Gartner's agentic AI warnings, here are 7 AI delivery lessons for enterprise teams: scoping, grounding, evaluation, cost control, governance, and DPDP-ready privacy.
Export controls now decide which AI models and chips an enterprise can legally run. A 2026 field guide for CTOs and compliance teams on model choice, sovereignty, and the EU AI Act.
Apple's AFM 3 Cloud Pro runs a frontier model on Nvidia GPUs in Google Cloud under Private Cloud Compute. What that architecture means for enterprise teams, and the observability gap it leaves.
AI agents are reaching production faster than the controls around them. The seven governance layers enterprises need before scaling agents in 2026, mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST, OWASP and DPDP.
The average enterprise runs 12 AI agents in 2026 and IBM expects over 1,600 per large company by year-end, yet only 18% keep a complete inventory. A practical guide to governing multi-agent sprawl.
