Atlassian: Research shows organizations should approach AI at the team level, not the individual level, to achieve true ROI
Presented by Atlassian Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, said Dr. Molly Sands, head of the Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, during a fireside chat with VentureBeat senior technology contributor Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026. Sands leads a team of behavioral scientists […]
Writer’s AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy
Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in production. A new paper from researchers at Writer provides a solution that is accessible to engineering teams. The study takes a systematic look at […]
A single AI agent conversation can look perfect and still be broken, leaders from LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave said at VB Transform 2026
A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product. That gap is driving a shift in how enterprises evaluate agents, away from scoring individual traces and toward comparing cohorts of users against a baseline. At VB Transform 2026, Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain; Hui Zhang, […]
At VB Transform 2026, Zillow’s engineering chief said AI ROI numbers only hold up if you measure before you build
Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn’t get one conversation with its customers. They move from a phone screen to a loan officer to a real estate agent, sometimes over months or years, and expect the context to follow them. A single chatbot could never carry that thread. At VB Transform 2026, Zillow SVP of […]
Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face’s defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems
Hugging Face’s incident response team first turned to frontier AI models to analyze a breach of the company’s production infrastructure, and the models refused to help. Commercial safety guardrails built to stop attackers blocked every forensic query because they treated the IR team’s real exploit data the same way they would treat a live attack. […]
AI confidence just dropped 17 points in six months. That’s actually great news.
Presented by JumpCloud The organizations losing confidence in AI are the ones most likely to get it right. Six months ago, 40% of IT leaders described their organizations as mature in AI deployment. Today that number is 23%. Before you read that as a setback, consider what it actually reflects. We recently surveyed 800 IT […]
The cleanup trap: Stop asking RAG to fix bad data
The enterprise technology ecosystem is caught in a costly cycle. Over the past two years, millions of dollars have been funneled into generative AI pilots, yet many of these initiatives stall out before ever reaching a live production environment. When a project fails, the immediate instinct of technical leadership is often to blame the model: […]
Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fleet of specialist […]
Agents think in milliseconds, legacy infrastructure doesn’t. LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk shared how they closed the gap at VB Transform 2026
Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what’s actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026. The panel brought together Animesh Singh, senior director of AI platform and infrastructure at LinkedIn, Desiree Gosby, SVP of corporate technology services […]
Brex built its AI agent policy by watching what agents actually do, not by writing rules first
OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively, and Brex found that traditional guardrails couldn’t contain what those agents were doing with them. Brex set out to […]