Mckinsey

Here’s a number worth sitting with: in any given business function at any given company, fewer than 10% of respondents say their organization is actually scaling AI agents. That’s the finding from McKinsey’s latest “Week in Charts” dataset — one of the more reliable pulse-checks on enterprise technology adoption because it pulls from real organizational survey data rather than vendor-funded enthusiasm. The conclusion is stark: the gap between the AI agent hype cycle and the ground truth of enterprise deployment is enormous. ...

Two hours. That’s how long it took an autonomous AI agent to crack open McKinsey’s internal AI assistant and walk out with 46 million chat messages, 728,000 confidential client files, and 57,000 user account records — all in plaintext. The breach wasn’t carried out by a human hacker manually probing endpoints. It was executed by an offensive AI agent deployed by CodeWall, a red-team security startup, as part of an authorized penetration test. The agent operated autonomously: it selected the target, identified the attack surface, and executed the breach without human intervention beyond the initial launch. ...