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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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News articleYahoo Finance· February 20, 2026

Modi’s Chaotic AI Summit Showed India’s Clout and Constraints

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Modi’s Chaotic AI Summit Showed India’s Clout and Constraints Photographer: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his pitch this week that India can play a leading role in the artificial intelligence boom with a conference featuring tech stars from around the world…
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  • The fight for AI supremacy is between open versus closed systems rather than where those systems are built

    80% confidence
  • India has made striking progress in AI over the past year

    80% confidence
  • India can catch up in the AI race by excelling in population-scale deployment in sectors like agriculture, education and health

    80% confidence
  • They've achieved what they wanted to achieve

    80% confidence
  • AI integration is a big opportunity for IT providers due to understanding of large-scale customer needs

    80% confidence
  • India has talent, energy capacity and policy clarity for AI development

    80% confidence
  • The risk is India becoming a data colony for big tech where the proprietary, the value-added services are done elsewhere

    80% confidence
  • There is too much concentration of power in artificial intelligence

    80% confidence
  • May be only a couple of years away from early versions of true superintelligence

    80% confidence
  • Claude Code doubled its local users in India over the past four months

    80% confidence
  • The future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries or left to the whims of a few billionaires

    80% confidence
  • India is the fastest-growing market for OpenAI's Codex coding tool

    80% confidence
  • Sovereignty matters much more in AI than building the biggest models

    80% confidence

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