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Shadow AI practices: A wakeup call for enterprises

This year marks a turning point in which we can say we are firmly in the era of AI agents, a revolutionary development in enterprise technology. Agents aren’t just a new software interface for enterprise processes, but a real technological advancement to boost the efficiency and scale of business operations. CIOs, CTOs or CISOs need to understand where agents sit on the maturity curve and how to leverage them to drive more profound transformation in their businesses. Companies that fully integrate agents into their workflows, as operators and teammates, will build the foundation for efficiency, quality and scalability to drive long-term growth and success. AI agents draw on foundation models like OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude to develop business reasoning and execution systems that learn and adapt.

Full report : While executives talk AI strategy, shadow agents are already inside the enterprise, quietly rewriting your risk profile faster than policies can keep up.