Short, sourced briefs for people who have to commit before the picture is complete. Every claim tiered by the strength of the source behind it. Every gap in the evidence named, rather than filled with a number that sounds right.
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Same dataset, same quarter: US AI adoption reads anywhere from 19% to 60%, depending only on which firms you count. Your board pack quotes one end and calls it a reality check. Source: US Census Bureau AI supplement / Federal Reserve FEDS Note
$39bn of "Agentforce revenue" turns out to be Sales Cloud and Service Cloud with a new label. The audited filing says so. The real figure is 1.9% of revenue. Source: Salesforce 10-K and quarterly filings
The agent that can do a task often can't do it twice. Accuracy is climbing roughly seven times faster than reliability, and that gap is why the human never leaves the loop. Source: Princeton agent-reliability group; METR (Tier 1)
The extended deadlines buy time, but the infrastructure to certify MDAI products does not yet exist at scale. Companies that delay Notified Body engagement until closer to the deadline will likely hit the same queue problem regardless of when the legal obligation falls.
