Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70 percent of enterprises will abandon agentic AI systems built with vendor assistance, as costs climb and customers find they cannot modify the technology without outside help. The forecast, reported by The Register on 30 September, lands on the same day OpenAI, Meta and DoorDash all pushed personal and workplace agents further into the mainstream.
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The UK AI Security Institute and Meridian Labs released Inspect, an open-source evaluation framework with more than 200 pre-built benchmarks, on 30 September, the same day NVIDIA's Kumo Tabular topped four tabular benchmarks and Phonon-2 shipped a 164 MB speech model.
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Two new inference engines claim order-of-magnitude efficiency gains on the same GPU hardware, while OpenAI's new $500 subscription and a September pricing snapshot show the per-token market is still moving in opposite directions.
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Modal and Carnegie Mellon's Full Stack Data Lab say their Quail engine pushed a multi-join AI-SQL query past one billion tokens per minute on a single H100, more than 10x their vLLM baseline, in a post published on 30 September.
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An open source inference engine that tunes its CPU kernels on your own device launched on 30 September, claiming decode speeds up to 92% faster than llama.cpp on Metal, as new research and pricing data point to a widening split in the cost of running AI.
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OpenClaw published OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) on 30 September, an open source, vendor neutral control plane for persistent agents. The foundation behind it says enterprise IT has mostly responded to agentic platforms by banning them outright.
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