For those in the restaurant industry, it seems like AI rollouts have hit a rocky road. In the Spring, Starbucks switched off a computer-vision system for counting inventory before it was a year old. In that same month, Pizza Hut's biggest franchisees sued the chain for $100 million, claiming a mandatory AI platform broke down across more than 110 restaurants. Reading these headlines can draw an easy conclusion: AI isn't ready for this business. It doesn't help that the other AI an operator… [...]
A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]
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Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]
Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into production throughout enterprise systems, and the winning platform will be the one that gives [...]
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]