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Enterprise AI Agent Rollout Outpaces Data Trust and Readiness
Enterprise adoption of agentic AI is accelerating fast — Siemens deepening its NVIDIA partnership for self-verifying agentic AI in chip design, Manulife expanding its Microsoft AI-governance partnership, and a wave of infrastructure launches (NVIDIA GPU-accelerated data processing, Dell exascale storage, new AI chip generations) — even as a new Google Cloud survey shows the underlying data foundation isn't ready: companies have AI access to only 45% of their data on average, data laggards see access fall to 30% or less, and only about half of organizations trust their AI agents' decisions. Meanwhile, insider selling at enterprise-AI bellwether C3.ai (CEO Thomas Siebel offloading $4.8M in shares) hints at investor caution layered under the adoption hype.
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Both facts report JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s revenue for the same fiscal period (FY 2025) with the same observation date (2025-12-31), but with different values: $182.447 billion vs. $185 billion. The ~1.4% difference ($2.553 billion) is too large to be explained by rounding alone and represents conflicting data for the identical time period.
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News articleNasdaq· February 17, 2026

Stocks Retreat on AI Anxiety

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Stocks Retreat on AI Anxiety The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) today is down -0.27%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) is down -0.22%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) is down -0.51%…
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  • Full-year organic net sales forecast to be down 1.5% to 2.0%, reduced from previous forecast of -1% to +1%

    80% confidence
  • Elliott Investment Management has built a more than 10% stake in Norwegian Cruise Line

    80% confidence
  • Southwest Airlines upgraded to buy from neutral with $73 price target

    80% confidence
  • S&P earnings growth expected to climb by 8.4% in Q4, marking the tenth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth

    80% confidence
  • Excluding the Magnificent Seven megacap technology stocks, Q4 earnings expected to increase by 4.6%

    80% confidence
  • AeroVironment rated overweight with $320 price target

    80% confidence
  • Activist investor Jana Partners has built a stake in Fiserv and is pushing for changes to improve stock performance

    80% confidence
  • Services inflation remains elevated, but there is potential for more interest rate cuts this year if inflation continues to return to the Fed's 2% target

    80% confidence
  • Danaher is closing in on a nearly $10 billion deal to acquire Masimo

    80% confidence
  • Full-year adjusted Ebitda forecast at $2.4 billion to $2.6 billion

    80% confidence
  • Warner Bros Discovery is considering reopening sale talks with Paramount Skydance

    80% confidence
  • 2026 adjusted EPS forecast at $8.70 to $9.90

    80% confidence
  • Full-year adjusted EPS forecast at $5.62 to $5.66

    80% confidence

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