AI agents failed to mention a mistake they had just made in 67% of agent runs.
In 5% of runs they noticed it and stayed quiet anyway. One decided bringing it up might just cause stress.
Researchers using AI found two critical flaws in PHP, the code behind about 70% of websites, per Wiz. Details leaked before the fix was out, so governments across Europe switched their own sites off and waited.
Databricks says adding memory tripled its agents' pass rate on its own benchmark of enterprise tasks, with 31% fewer tokens. Their test, so some salt. But I buy it. Most agents don't need a bigger brain. They need to stop treating every task like day one.
Chart: Databricks
1/4 Most companies didn't ban AI. They just banned putting anything real in it.
No client files, no contracts, no code. So you get a nice email tool, and the actual work stays off limits.
openai's new model went from 5.4% to 86.6% at migrating cobol in one release. cobol runs 95% of atm transactions
and i'd bet most banks still won't let it anywhere near the code that matters
1/5
opencode spent 48 hours getting hit by attacking agents nonstop
halfway through, the ai they were using to defend started refusing to help bc analyzing the attack tripped its safety filters
1/5