Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/agent-mode-ai The audio companion to agentmodeai.com. Two analysts pick one claim from the Holding-up ledger per episode, walk the evidence, and give the current verdict: Holding, Partial, or Not holding. For CIOs, IT directors, and senior implementers. 15-20 min, every Sunday. 2026 Agent Mode AI d0aebdc9-ed99-56b2-b077-cdfb35836873 yes en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:35:30 +0200 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:36:10 +0200 https://www.agentmodeai.com https://img.transistorcdn.com/NHoIUYSla4UVMwKXnIzZkk5BVr2nxUw-Cse9N9o3wYI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MDZk/ZDYwZDQ4ZmJlOTQz/ZjExNTAzNjczMDRl/ZjIwZi5wbmc.jpg https://www.agentmodeai.com episodic Agent Mode AI The audio companion to agentmodeai.com. Two analysts pick one claim from the Holding-up ledger per episode, walk the evidence, and give the current verdict: Holding, Partial, or Not holding. For CIOs, IT directors, and senior implementers. 15-20 min, every Sunday. The audio companion to agentmodeai.com. agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up Peter Walda No No 19 19 The vertical stack meets the deadline: 42 days into EU AI Act enforcement full 3df42fb7-2834-4dda-8e16-08d7d0bd614b https://share.transistor.fm/s/6cc75fc2 Thu, 21 May 2026 04:50:54 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 1386 Two May 2026 claims meet at September. AM-159 read Anthropic's Wall Street agents launch as a vertical-stack signal CIOs should procure against. AM-158 sized the EU AI Act high-risk readiness gap that hit on 2 August 2026. By 13 September the enforcement Two May 2026 claims meet at September. AM-159 read Anthropic's Wall Street agents launch as a vertical-stack signal CIOs should procure against. AM-158 sized the EU AI Act high-risk readiness gap that hit on 2 August 2026. By 13 September the enforcement agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 18 18 Credentials, surface, execution: the May 17 risk surface, 100 days later full c3c724f3-64eb-49ef-89fb-2123b631cb2c https://share.transistor.fm/s/960f24db Wed, 20 May 2026 23:52:45 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 1515 Three pieces on 17 May 2026 traced a single enterprise AI risk chain. AM-155 named the credential storage practices Storm-0558 exposed. AM-156 named the detection lag that lets shadow AI run for months before discovery. AM-157 named the framework-level CV Three pieces on 17 May 2026 traced a single enterprise AI risk chain. AM-155 named the credential storage practices Storm-0558 exposed. AM-156 named the detection lag that lets shadow AI run for months before discovery. AM-157 named the framework-level CV agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 17 17 Karpathy at Anthropic: what the May 19 hire actually moved by August full 4353e1fb-3d67-45ad-a558-befb32a2a956 https://share.transistor.fm/s/af826cec Wed, 20 May 2026 22:25:22 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 1212 On 19 May 2026 Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team under Nick Joseph, with a stated mandate to use Claude to accelerate pre-training research. AM-160 set four observable markers due by 17 August 2026. Abby and Avery walk what held, what d On 19 May 2026 Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic's pre-training team under Nick Joseph, with a stated mandate to use Claude to accelerate pre-training research. AM-160 set four observable markers due by 17 August 2026. Abby and Avery walk what held, what d agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 13 13 Why IT operations is the highest-exposure agentic-AI workforce population full 74dbe939-f9b8-48ab-915f-a97056d65435 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a4a9db79 Sun, 10 May 2026 13:47:09 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 746 The IT operations job-family is structurally distinctive in agentic AI exposure terms. AM-012 walks the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook role-by-role projections through 2033, the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025 bimodal d The IT operations job-family is structurally distinctive in agentic AI exposure terms. AM-012 walks the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook role-by-role projections through 2033, the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025 bimodal d agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 12 12 What the Anthropic Claude for Chrome disclosure tells procurement full 24b9dc0f-19be-483e-9ec8-ab8bcf759a84 https://share.transistor.fm/s/68c1e053 Sun, 10 May 2026 13:33:31 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 624 Anthropic shipped Claude for Chrome on the twenty-sixth of August 2025 to one thousand Max-plan subscribers at one hundred to two hundred dollars per month, with a published security disclosure: twenty-three point six percent prompt-injection success pre- Anthropic shipped Claude for Chrome on the twenty-sixth of August 2025 to one thousand Max-plan subscribers at one hundred to two hundred dollars per month, with a published security disclosure: twenty-three point six percent prompt-injection success pre- agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 11 11 The seven AI vendor exit clauses that decide whether you can leave full 9bef03a0-7936-479e-ac83-d8c3423a4811 https://share.transistor.fm/s/e14f8b90 Sun, 10 May 2026 13:15:37 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 651 Switching AI vendors in 2026 is a contracts problem before it is a tech problem. AM-145 walks the seven exit-clause families most enterprise master service agreements miss, the three forces that turn the 2026 renewal cycle into a board-level question, and Switching AI vendors in 2026 is a contracts problem before it is a tech problem. AM-145 walks the seven exit-clause families most enterprise master service agreements miss, the three forces that turn the 2026 renewal cycle into a board-level question, and agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 10 10 What vendor "successful pilot" references do not tell procurement full 094b16e0-332c-4d1a-9df7-091b682e873f https://share.transistor.fm/s/f256986c Sun, 10 May 2026 12:52:14 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 600 McKinsey State of AI 2025 measures twenty-three percent of enterprises scaling agentic AI, thirty-nine percent experimenting, thirty-eight percent with nothing in production or stopped. AM-140 walks the gap between vendor pilot references and procuring-en McKinsey State of AI 2025 measures twenty-three percent of enterprises scaling agentic AI, thirty-nine percent experimenting, thirty-eight percent with nothing in production or stopped. AM-140 walks the gap between vendor pilot references and procuring-en agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 9 9 The three questions every CIO should ask about a vendor accuracy claim full 4e6b2cb1-9589-4a96-8eb8-1ec8efe5f3c9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/c5a3318a Sun, 10 May 2026 12:49:20 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 734 Vendor "ready-to-run" agentic AI positioning is not procurement evidence unless three questions are answered: accuracy on which task, against which baseline, measured how. AM-146 walks the 2026 procurement-grade reference shapes — CRMArena-Pro, CMU TheAge Vendor "ready-to-run" agentic AI positioning is not procurement evidence unless three questions are answered: accuracy on which task, against which baseline, measured how. AM-146 walks the 2026 procurement-grade reference shapes — CRMArena-Pro, CMU TheAge agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 8 8 Which LLM provider actually stays up? full 8e3f9214-560f-4553-bb35-060fcd5d7138 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3befcb87 Fri, 08 May 2026 06:55:01 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 828 Twenty-four months of operational record across the five major foundation-model providers. AM-136 documents Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI. Every provider had at least one multi-hour outage that exceeded its own SLA-credit thresh Twenty-four months of operational record across the five major foundation-model providers. AM-136 documents Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS Bedrock, and Azure OpenAI. Every provider had at least one multi-hour outage that exceeded its own SLA-credit thresh agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 7 7 Why 88% of agentic AI deployments fail full 10e2d791-d939-4e41-90a8-739199e52e36 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a33d5d44 Fri, 08 May 2026 06:39:17 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 766 Four datasets converge on the same bimodal shape across enterprise agentic AI. Stanford Digital Economy Lab's twelve-eighty-eight split. McKinsey State of AI 2025's twenty-three percent scaling cohort. MIT NANDA's ninety-five percent pilot-failure finding Four datasets converge on the same bimodal shape across enterprise agentic AI. Stanford Digital Economy Lab's twelve-eighty-eight split. McKinsey State of AI 2025's twenty-three percent scaling cohort. MIT NANDA's ninety-five percent pilot-failure finding agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 6 6 What changes for enterprise AI on 2 August 2026 full 4eb6128e-208d-45d6-aaff-1d294a4e7159 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3e7f2e81 Fri, 08 May 2026 06:35:59 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 935 The 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deployer-obligations enforcement window is ninety days from this episode's publication date. Four claims interlock for the procurement reader: AM-127 the deadline-anchored prediction, AM-135 the Article 50 transparency UX, AM-1 The 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deployer-obligations enforcement window is ninety days from this episode's publication date. Four claims interlock for the procurement reader: AM-127 the deadline-anchored prediction, AM-135 the Article 50 transparency UX, AM-1 agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 5 5 What the money is doing full d50a0941-aae9-4499-8cb0-32d01062051a https://share.transistor.fm/s/c96a3155 Sun, 03 May 2026 16:13:57 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 537 Three institutional capital allocators reading the same AI risk surface and behaving differently. AM-118: pension funds and sovereign wealth funds publishing nothing. AM-119: reinsurance market actively repricing AI tail risk. AM-121: SaaS incumbents cele Three institutional capital allocators reading the same AI risk surface and behaving differently. AM-118: pension funds and sovereign wealth funds publishing nothing. AM-119: reinsurance market actively repricing AI tail risk. AM-121: SaaS incumbents cele agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 4 4 What AI doesn't know about your business full b663a8df-ec13-4906-baf8-4c3a54c51fe9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7b59ad38 Sun, 03 May 2026 16:12:31 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 604 Operators edition. Three places where SMB AI tools produce visible work that fails because the tool doesn't know about the regulatory or algorithmic layer it's operating in. OPS-037: AI-drafted invoices fail EU VAT audits on cross-border treatment. OPS-03 Operators edition. Three places where SMB AI tools produce visible work that fails because the tool doesn't know about the regulatory or algorithmic layer it's operating in. OPS-037: AI-drafted invoices fail EU VAT audits on cross-border treatment. OPS-03 agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 3 3 Whose consent do you need to deploy AI? full 088c072b-9a13-4266-a9f7-2d15973ab3c2 https://share.transistor.fm/s/3940c2f6 Sun, 03 May 2026 16:10:31 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 462 The same labour-relations surface, two scales. AM-120: works council consent for AI deployment in EU multinationals under German BetrVG §87, Dutch WOR Article 27, French CSE provisions. OPS-038: collective-agreement triggers at four-employee SMB scale via The same labour-relations surface, two scales. AM-120: works council consent for AI deployment in EU multinationals under German BetrVG §87, Dutch WOR Article 27, French CSE provisions. OPS-038: collective-agreement triggers at four-employee SMB scale via agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 2 2 What you are actually buying when you buy AI full 52fc3709-5743-4780-8057-77d21eefb2e0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/0499b1bf Sun, 03 May 2026 16:08:56 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 584 Two procurement surfaces that did not exist on any CIO checklist eighteen months ago. AM-117: AI Bill of Materials becoming a procurement requirement under EU AI Act Article 11 and CycloneDX ML-BOM. AM-121: ServiceNow Now Assist's auditability and lock-in Two procurement surfaces that did not exist on any CIO checklist eighteen months ago. AM-117: AI Bill of Materials becoming a procurement requirement under EU AI Act Article 11 and CycloneDX ML-BOM. AM-121: ServiceNow Now Assist's auditability and lock-in agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No 1 1 The CIO's new liability full 504fa482-2b9e-4c5e-9668-0aa78ec35aed https://share.transistor.fm/s/b8e053ce Sun, 03 May 2026 14:44:32 +0200 Agent Mode AI Agent Mode AI 757 Two insurance markets are repricing AI risk on the same enterprise. D&O insurance is rewriting renewal language to flag AI supervision under the Caremark fiduciary doctrine; the reinsurance market is repricing AI tail risk into 2026 cyber treaties. Abby a Two insurance markets are repricing AI risk on the same enterprise. D&O insurance is rewriting renewal language to flag AI supervision under the Caremark fiduciary doctrine; the reinsurance market is repricing AI tail risk into 2026 cyber treaties. Ab agentic AI, enterprise AI, IT operations, CIO, AI governance, ServiceNow, EU AI Act, AI procurement, AI audit, AI risk, holding-up No