Latest Artificial Intelligence News & Technical Dispatches

ServiceNow Build Agent: governed MCP tool access with role-based permissions and audit trails across VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code.

Oracle launches Fusion Agentic Applications: 340 pre-built finance and supply chain agent workflows with 98% invoice automation at $0.18 per invoice.

McKinsey 2026 survey finds 73% of enterprise workflows are agent-augmented, up from 12% in 2024. Production patterns reveal reliability and governance barriers.

Cisco reports 85% of enterprises pilot AI agents but only 5% reach production. Benchmark the trust gap across reliability, observability, and governance.

Compare Orkes Conductor, Temporal, and AWS Step Functions for agent orchestration: latency, cost per 100K state transitions, and which platform breaks first.

Benchmark three agent evaluation methods: heuristic judges score 94% precision but miss 38% of agent failures. Hybrid catches 97% at $0.03 per evaluation.

Cover NVIDIA AIPerf launch: multiprocess inference benchmarking with TTFT, ITL tails, and realistic traffic that ends vanity throughput figures for good.

Route test-time compute by difficulty: match best-of-16 accuracy within 0.01 points at 58.9% fewer tokens with calibrated early stopping and halved latency.

Cover GPT-5.4 Pro FrontierScience lead at 36.7%: rubric-graded PhD research subtasks split from saturating Olympiad theory, plus the builder playbook.

Cover GLiFormer 575M encoder release: 91.10 F1 extraction past GPT-5-mini with zero generated tokens, plus the LLM-to-encoder migration playbook.

Run TDD agents with test-impact maps: human repro tests unlock 94.3% resolution while bare TDD prompting raises regressions 63% — maps over mantras.

Cover the Vercel record: open weights take 78.4% of gateway tokens as Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai outspend OpenAI — plus the mix-audit playbook for builders.

Settle the stuff-vs-retrieve debate with measurements: 8K effective windows lose to graded RAG, and a Self-Route hybrid holds quality at 34% of cost.

Ship adaptive compaction for coding agents: fire at phase transitions, preserve five-field state, and hold 97.8% next-action accuracy at 0.3x cost.

Give monorepo coding agents structural repo maps: hybrid vector-graph indexes lift resolve 50.4% vs 41.9% over grep at lower cost per solve with refresh.