Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first.

Merck cut a drug discovery cycle by 33% and ships compliant marketing 80% faster. Mastercard is rethinking fraud disputes.
InfoQ

Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

Aaron Erickson discusses the evolution of AI workflows, shifting from "vibe checking" to building reliable, multi-agent ...

Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion

A new report from RUSI focuses on how AI models are enabling regimes such as North Korea and Iran to execute cyber operations ...
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Microsoft Open-Sources AI Safety Tools for Agent Developers

Microsoft has released two open-source tools, RAMPART and Clarity, to help developers test AI agents earlier in the software lifecycle and make safety checks a more repeatable part of the engineering ...