Finance leaders are rushing to deploy AI agents, but a new survey suggests many companies are moving faster than their safeguards can handle. As AI takes on more financial tasks, questions around governance, accountability, and control are becoming harder to ignore.
IBM says the biggest challenge in AI-powered software development is no longer generating code. Instead, the company argues that reviewing and validating AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, prompting new multi-agent capabilities and modernization tools for its Bob platform.
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion and embedding 6,000 engineers inside customer organizations as it bets that successful AI adoption requires people, not just models.
A new Skillsoft report claims companies are deploying AI tools faster than employees can realistically adapt. While most workers already use AI at work, only a small percentage say they actually feel prepared to use the technology effectively, revealing a major disconnect between leadership expectations and employee confidence.
IBM says artificial intelligence is moving toward infrastructure status and argues that open source development may be the safest way to build and secure it.