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State of Data & AI 2026: Agentic AI
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21 July 2026
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Enterprise agentic AI adoption is accelerating across Australia, but governance is emerging as the primary constraint—organisations deploying task-specific agents face risks from agent sprawl, accountability gaps, and lack of visibility as adoption scales from dozens to thousands of agents per enterprise by 2028.
◆ The Wire takeaway
If you're building governance, monitoring, or orchestration tooling for AI agents, you're now selling into a compulsory problem—74% of IT leaders see agents as a new attack vector, and only 13% have governance structures in place as deployment scales from dozens to thousands per organisation. CIOs have no visibility into agents deployed across functions; that opacity is your market.
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agentic-ai · governance-gap · agent-sprawl · enterprise-adoption · ai-safety