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The Great AI Governance Gap: Why Nobody Is Ready for 150,000 AI Agents
Gartner predicts Fortune 500 companies will run 150,000 AI agents by 2028 — but only 13% have governance in place. Here's why the gap is wider than you think, and what Amazon, NVIDIA, and the skeptics are actually doing about it.

The Announcement
Let's start with a number that should stop any CIO cold: 150,000.
That's how many AI agents Gartner predicts the average Fortune 500 enterprise will have running in production by 2028 — a dizzying leap from fewer than 15 per company in 2025, according to reporting from TechRadar. IDC's forecast is even more dramatic: over 1 billion agentic AI agents in use globally by 2029, a 40-fold increase from today.
The industry is not quietly preparing for this. It's...
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