Industry Analysis

We take the latest industry survey data and test it against the news headlines. Each piece analyses the numbers, compares them with related research, and tells you how far to trust them.

28 October 2026 54% of organisations haven't given their AI agents access rules of their own A Gartner survey found most organisations either have no approach to limiting agent access or let agents reuse rules written for people. Three weeks later, US banks found out what that looks like from the other side of the login screen. Safety & AlignmentPolicy & Society 27 October 2026 6.8% of teams fix AI code's security problems while it's being written A Salt Security survey found that only 6.8% of respondents resolve issues inside the coding assistant at generation time. Around the same time, a benchmark found frontier coding agents rarely write secure code when the task doesn't ask for it, and GitHub's new AI scanner checks code only once it reaches a pull request. Safety & Alignment