Agent Mode AI

Episode 19 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery compose AM-159 (Anthropic Wall Street agents launch 5 May 2026, vertical-stack signal) with AM-158 (EU AI Act T-100 readiness gap, enforcement 2 August 2026). The episode airs 131 days after the Anthropic launch and 42 days into the EU AI Act enforcement window, so both claims have cleared first review and the predicted outcomes are testable on air. The...

Episode 18 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-155, AM-156 and AM-157 — the May 17 batch that the publication composed as a credentials-to-surface-to- execution chain. AM-155 reads the CSRB Storm-0558 findings forward into 2026 enterprise AI agent credential storage. AM-156 names shadow-AI detection lag as structural to the audit model, not procedural — Samsung 2023 as the recurring pattern,...

Episode 17 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-160 (the CIO vendor-trajectory read of Karpathy joining Anthropic's pre-training team on 19 May 2026) and OPS-070 (the operator-side 70% concentration rule). The episode airs 103 days after the announcement and 13 days after the AM-160 marker-check date — so the four observable markers (Claude-in-the-loop research paper, Claude release with credi...

Episode 13 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-012, the claim that the enterprise IT operations workforce is structurally the highest-exposure population to autonomous-action AI. The task surface that defines the family — incident triage, configuration management, ticket processing, routine diagnostics, scripted remediation — maps onto the agent-class capability boundary more directly than an...

Episode 12 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-009, the claim that Anthropic's Claude for Chrome launch is a procurement-decision data point about the maturity of the browser-resident agentic AI class rather than about Anthropic specifically. The published security disclosure on the launch reports a twenty-three point six percent prompt-injection success rate pre-mitigation, eleven point two...

Episode 11 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-145, the claim that AI vendor switching in 2026 is bound primarily by contract terms — exit clauses, data-portability obligations, model-deprecation rights — not by technical migration cost. Three forces drive the 2026 procurement story: vendor consolidation (ServiceNow completing the Moveworks acquisition in December 2025, Automation Anywhere cl...

Episode 10 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-140, the claim that vendor "successful pilot" references transfer to scaled production at roughly the McKinsey twenty-three percent rate, and that the gap is operational rather than capability-driven. The McKinsey State of AI 2025 survey, published November 2025 with sample size one thousand four hundred ninety-one, is the anchor data point. The...

Episode 9 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-146, the claim that vendor "ready-to-run" positioning without named task, named baseline, and named methodology is procurement-deck noise rather than procurement evidence. The procurement-grade reference shapes in 2026 are the academic-benchmark layer (CRMArena-Pro 35% multi-step reliability, CMU TheAgentCompany 30-35% reproduction range, WebArena...

Episode 8 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk AM-136, the foundation- model uptime track-record claim. Twenty-four-month operational record across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI. Why the status pages do not tell the procurement team what they need to know. The SLA-credit gap that almost every enterprise customer discovers only after their first incident. Three multi-pro...

CORRECTION (10 Jun 2026): The 12/88 statistic central to this episode was retracted on 10 Jun 2026; it does not appear in the cited Stanford source. The audio remains available unchanged as the record. Full correction and restated article: https://agentmodeai.com/why-88-percent-of-agentic-ai-deployments-fail/ Ledger record (AM-029, Not holding): https://agentmodeai.com/holding/?claim=AM-029 Origin...

Episode 6 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk the four claims that interlock around the 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deployer-obligations enforcement window. AM-127 is the falsifiable prediction (three of four operational claims will downgrade by 1 October 2026). AM-135 is the Article 50 transparency UX with chatbot disclosure, generative AI watermarking, biometric notification, and deepfake disclosu...

Episode 5 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk through AM-118, AM-119, and the vendor-economics section of AM-121 — three institutional capital cohorts reading the same AI risk surface from three different angles, behaving in three different directions, in 2026. Sources cited: - NBIM (Norges Bank Investment Management) governance documentation, 2015-2026 - CalPERS investment policy publications -...

Episode 4 of Agent Mode AI. The operators edition. Abby and Avery walk through OPS-037, OPS-039, and OPS-041 — three places where SMB AI tools generate visible work that misses the regulatory or algorithmic layer the tool was unaware of. Sources cited: - EU OSS scheme + reverse-charge VAT rules (Belastingdienst, HMRC, BZSt) - Burgerlijk Wetboek Boek 3 Article 89, Netherlands (notarial form) - Bürg...

Episode 3 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk through AM-120 and OPS-038: the same continental European labour-relations surface that governs AI deployment, observed at the multinational scale and at the four-employee SMB scale. Sources cited: - Betriebsverfassungsgesetz (BetrVG) §87, Federal Republic of Germany - Wet op de ondernemingsraden (WOR) Article 27, Netherlands - Code du travail Comité...

Episode 2 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Avery walk through AM-117 and AM-121: the AI Bill of Materials as the new EU AI Act Article 11 procurement artefact, and the auditability-versus-lock-in axis that defines platform-incumbent AI procurement in 2026. Sources cited: - EU AI Act Article 11, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 - CycloneDX ML-BOM specification (OWASP Foundation) - SPDX 3.0 AI extensions (Linux...

Episode 1 of Agent Mode AI. Abby and Matt walk through AM-116 and AM-119: directors' and officers' insurance under the Caremark line, and the reinsurance market repricing cyber treaties for 2026. Sources cited: - In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation, 698 A.2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996) - Marchand v. Barnhill, 212 A.3d 805 (Del. 2019) - Marsh quarterly D&O market reports, 2025-2026...