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One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time

venturebeat.com · 3hShare

Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB Pulse data . This is not just to avoid vendor lock-in and retain flexibility (although that’s a big part of it). There’s still a lot of uncertainty, even distrust, in vendors’ security and permissioning capabilities. Enterprises want the ability to impose their own. Microsoft leads on primary usage today, while Anthropic leads by a wide margin in what enterprises are considering next. But enterprises still struggle with many challenges, notably around token usage and visibility into agent spending. These findings are from an ongoing analysis of how enterprises are actually deploying and using AI: Their platforms of choice, what guides their decision-making, what they prioritize, their AI expectations, how they control costs, and whether their AI is actually agen

First report: How Enterprises Can Catch Up With the Rapid Pace of AI Advances — aibusiness.com, 2d