AI Agents by Industry
AI Agents for Grocery Store Chains: Why the Real Automation Fight Is at the Self-Checkout Lane
68% of U.S. food retailers now use AI, up from 47% a year ago, per FMI's own 2026 industry survey. But the sharpest near-term AI fight in grocery isn't in the supply chain, it's at the self-checkout lane, where shoplifting, false alarms, and employee abuse are colliding.
AI Agents for Grocery and Supermarket Chains: What FMI's 2026 Data Says Is Actually Slowing Adoption Down
FMI's 2026 State of Technology report finds grocery AI adoption has gone mainstream (68%, up from 47%), but fewer than a third of food retailers have a defined change-management plan for it. Here's where AI agents are actually landing on the shelf, and why the investment isn't fully paying off yet.
Can Credit Unions Compete With Big Banks on AI Agents?
Credit unions are now more likely than big banks to deploy generative AI (59% vs. 49%) and twice as likely to invest in agentic AI, per Cornerstone Advisors' 2026 Banking Outlook. Here's how member-owned institutions are using AI agents to compete on service without big-bank budgets.
AI Agents for Mortgage Lenders and Servicers: What a New Industry Survey Reveals About the Scaling Gap
A joint AARMR, MBA, and Boston Consulting Group survey of lenders and servicers covering 40% of the U.S. mortgage market finds AI everywhere in production, but almost nowhere fully scaled.
AI Agents for Corporate Travel and Expense Teams: What GBTA's 2026 Data Shows Is Actually Live
A third of corporate travel buyers are already experimenting with autonomous AI agents, and over half plan to hand expense reconciliation to them, per GBTA's latest industry poll.
AI Agents for Data Center Operators: Uptime's 2026 Survey Shows Trust Dropping Even as Adoption Rises
Uptime Institute's 16th Annual Global Data Center Survey found trust in AI for autonomous operations falling even as AI reshapes rack density, staffing, and capacity planning. Here's what that gap means for how AI agents actually get deployed on the operations floor.
AI Agents on Campus: Why More Than Half of Higher Ed Staff Are Already Using Their Own AI Tools
A new EDUCAUSE survey of nearly 2,000 higher-ed staff finds 94% already using AI for work -- but only 13% are measuring ROI and 56% have gone around official tools entirely. The classroom debate is missing the bigger story in the back office.
AI Agents for Museums and Cultural Institutions: What the First UNESCO-ICOM Global Survey Found
UNESCO and ICOM surveyed more than 400 museums across 90 countries and found 57% are already using AI, mostly for administration, while 55% have no internal AI policy at all.
The Agentic AI Productivity Wave Heading for Wealth Management
Deloitte predicts adviser productivity gains of 30% to 100% by 2032 as agentic AI takes over the roughly 70% of an adviser's day spent on behind-the-scenes work, but only 6% of firms use agentic tools today.
AI Agents for HR Teams: Why More Than Half of Companies Still Have None in Place
SHRM's 2026 State of AI in HR report, drawn from more than 1,900 HR professionals, found only 39% of organizations have actually implemented AI in HR — even as 92% of CHROs expect adoption to keep climbing.
AI Agents for Construction and Engineering Firms: What Autodesk's 2026 Survey of 2,500 Leaders Shows
Autodesk surveyed 2,500 architecture, engineering, construction, and operations leaders for its 2026 AI Pulse report. Agentic AI adoption is jumping fast, but the same survey shows most firms still lack the data foundations to actually use it.
AI Agents for CPG Brands: What Reckitt's Global Rollout Shows About Retail Execution at Scale
Reckitt's AI-enabled RGMx and Smart Execution platforms, built with McKinsey and rolled out across 35 markets, now guide pricing, promotion, and shelf-level decisions store by store. Here's what that shows about where AI agents are actually landing in consumer packaged goods.