
Agentic AI requires robust data infrastructure and business context to function effectively, with many organizations facing challenges in accessing and managing their data. Only 45% of data is accessible to AI agents on average, and data laggard organizations have even less access, limiting the potential benefits of agentic AI. Data leaders are overcoming legacy constraints by improving data access and governance, enabling faster and more scalable agent performance. Within two years, 100% of respondents plan to use agentic AI, highlighting the urgency of addressing data system limitations to achieve its promised speed and efficiency.
When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes or programmed formulas into their TI-82s, and others to share inspiring ways they were…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs Nine years after Google researchers introduced the transformer, this family of neural networks has become the engine inside every major large…

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they described a new…
