A company builds a governed context layer specifically to stop its AI agents from confidently giving wrong answers. Once that layer is live, the company is more than twice as likely to report the failure happening — not less.In the past six months, 68% of enterprises have traced a confident but wrong AI agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context. Thirty-seven percent say it happened more than once, ahead of the 32% who saw it happen only once. The figures come from a VB Pulse July 2026 survey of 101 qualified enterprises with more than 100 employees. That's up from 57% in a VB Pulse survey conducted in June. Recurring failures climbed too, from 31% then to 37% now.This is the second time VB Pulse has asked enterprises this exact question, once in June and now in July. [...]
Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in [...]
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Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research's June surve [...]
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI [...]
Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses [...]