74% of Enterprises Rolled Back Live AI Agents

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PhotonPay and Mastercard Complete Live Agentic Payment

PhotonPay completed its first live agentic payment with Mastercard in Hong Kong, where an AI agent autonomously initiated and executed a real-world transaction. Strategic signal: agentic payments are moving from demos to payment-network validation.

Fiserv Taps OpenAI to Build First-Party Banking Agents

Fiserv also announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to build agents on agentOS, targeting high-capacity workflows inside financial institutions. Strategic signal: OpenAI is moving deeper into regulated enterprise operations through platform partners.

Stripe and Google Push Agentic Checkout Into AI Platforms

Stripe’s Google partnership is bringing agentic checkout to major AI surfaces, expanding the rails for purchases inside AI experiences. Strategic signal: checkout is becoming an AI-native layer, not just a website button.

Sinch Says 74% of Enterprises Rolled Back Live AI Agents

Sinch research found 62% of enterprises already have AI agents live in production, but 74% have rolled back or shut down at least one deployed agent. Strategic signal: adoption is real, but reliability, governance, and safety are becoming the bottleneck.

Summary of findings

• 62% of enterprises already have AI agents live in production

• 74% have rolled back or shut down a deployed AI agent

• 81% rollback rate among organizations with mature governance frameworks

• 75% report investment in trust, security and compliance, higher than AI development itself (63%).

• 84% of AI engineering teams spend at least half their time on safety infrastructure

• 98% are increasing AI investment in 2026

• 55% have to build custom infrastructure for cross channel context

• 86% have evaluated or are considering new communications providers

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Workday Brings Sana Agent Into Microsoft 365 Copilot

Workday is putting its Sana Self-Service Agent for HR and finance inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, letting employees take Workday actions from Microsoft 365. Strategic signal: enterprise agents are moving into the daily work surface, not waiting inside separate SaaS tabs.

Stellagent Launches Testing Studio for Agentic Commerce

Stellagent launched Agentic Commerce Studio, a browser-based environment for testing whether product data, inventory, shipping, checkout, and payment flows are usable by AI shopping agents. Strategic signal: merchants now need “agent-readiness,” not just SEO.

Dotmatics Launches Luma Agent as an AI Co-Scientist

Dotmatics introduced Luma Agent, an agentic AI capability that can plan and execute scientific work, analyze data, generate reports, manage workflows, and configure the platform. Strategic signal: agentic AI is entering regulated R&D workflows where traceability matters.

$992 Billion in Art Could Change Hands. Why Are These 71,105 Investors Paying Close Attention?

Deloitte ran the numbers. They project UHNW art and collectibles wealth -- already at $2.5 trillion -- to hit $3.47 trillion by 2030.

The institutional world has been quietly preparing for this. Back in 2011, 25% of wealth managers surveyed offered art-related services. In 2024, 51%. Family offices now average a 13.4% allocation to art and collectibles. And it’s not just because they love art. It’s because they like the math.

These positions were built over decades through private dealer relationships most investors never had. The access just wasn't there.

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• $1.3B deployed across 525+ artworks

• 29 closed sales

• Net annualized returns like 16.5%, 17.6%, and 17.8%, not including those unsold.

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