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For decades, artificial intelligence was mainly associated with automation — machines performing…

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Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver

Presented by SAPEnterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. The SAP Value of AI Report 2026, produced with Oxford Economics and based on a survey of 2,600 business leaders across 13 countries, found that AI now supports nearly one-third of all tasks in the average organization, rising to 30% from 25% last year. ROI expectations for agentic AI have jumped from 10% last year to 17% this year, but many organizations believe AI could be delivering far more value. The report reveals that the gap comes down to strategy, data, and governance, rather than access to the newest model, says Sean Kask, chief AI strategy officer at SAP. AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that s beginning to show real returns, but there s still a long way to go, Kask says. That s because AI that lacks context, whether that s processes, data, or governance, at best creates activity without outcomes and at worst creates risk. Companies are still t

VentureBeat·Jul 30, 2026

Agentic AI Testing: The Question Nobody’s Asking (But Should Be)

Nobody is asking whether AI agents can test software. Everyone should be asking who s accountable when they re wrong.Continue reading on Medium »

An AI API Is Two Products: The Request Path and the Debugging Path

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arXiv Robotics·Jul 30, 2026

Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2607.26148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous embodied agents must sustain a long decision-making loop that involves perceiving, acting, verifying, and self-correcting over many steps. Current systems sustain this loop through task-specific workflows or embodied policies. We study a third form, agentic embodied control, in which a general-purpose agent holds the loop itself. Using zero-shot navigation as a controlled testbed, we evaluate three software-engineering agent harnesses given only a monocular RGB camera and discrete actions. Under this strictly minimal condition, replicated default-effort configurations reach 70.7$\pm$3.5% success (opus-5, mean over three runs), and fable-5 reaches 78% at maximum effort. When a trained waypoint tool is exposed alongside primitives as an optional capability, the hybrid fable-5 agent reaches 76.7$\pm$0.6% at default effort, using half the environment steps and less than one quarter of the wall time of the maximum-effort primitive r

arXiv Robotics·Jul 30, 2026

Towards Trustworthy Embodied Intelligence: A Systems Framework and Graded Trustworthiness Levels

arXiv:2607.26121v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligence integrates learned perception and decision making with real-time computation, control, and physical interaction. Because failures can cause immediate physical or operational harm, task completion alone does not establish trustworthiness. We define trustworthy embodied intelligence as the sustained capacity to execute specified tasks reliably under environmental and system variation while maintaining risk within acceptable bounds. We term this objective sustained safe success. Its supporting mechanisms are organized into four interdependent layers. The model layer generates task-competent action proposals with calibrated uncertainty and explicit safety preferences. The system layer realizes authorized actions dependably through integrated sensing, computation, control, hardware safeguards, fault containment, and fallback. The evidence layer substantiates bounded claims through evaluation, verification, validation, tra

arXiv Machine Learning·Jul 30, 2026

Emergent Sparsity in Frozen Random CNN Feature Extractors for Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.26059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We report a striking phenomenon: deep reinforcement learning agents trained with frozen, randomly initialized CNN feature extractors spontaneously develop extremely sparse fully-connected representations, without any sparsity-inducing objective. In the first fully-connected layer (FC1, $3{,}136 \to 64$), agents compress task-relevant information through as few as 1-3 neurons out of 64 for deterministic Pong (5-11 for stochastic Pong), while trainable CNNs activate 55-64 neurons under matched conditions. We establish four principal findings. First, FC1 sparsity scales with task complexity: 1-11 for Pong, 19-26 for Breakout, and $\sim$42 for Space Invaders. Width-scaling confirms this reflects task structure rather than a fixed capacity fraction. Second, within-game scaling emerges: three identical Pong seeds produce 5, 7, and 11 active neurons. The 5-neuron seed plateaus at $+14$ reward, while the others reach expert performance ($+18.4$,

arXiv Machine Learning·Jul 30, 2026

Sim2Win: A Team-Agnostic, Event-Based Pre-Match Outcome Prediction and Tactical Profiling System for Football

arXiv:2607.26061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-match tactical decision-making in professional football relies heavily on subjective expert analysis and identity-based scouting systems that cannot generalize to unseen teams. This paper presents Sim2Win, a team-agnostic, event-based pre-match tactical recommendation framework that reframes match outcome prediction as a tactical decision-support problem. Using StatsBomb open event data from eleven competitions spanning 178 teams and 1,411 team-match records, Sim2Win constructs five-match rolling tactical profiles, engineers four interpretable tactical feature ratios, clusters team behaviors into eight playstyles via K-Means, and trains thirteen classifiers to estimate win, draw, and loss probabilities from tactical matchup representations. The system operates without team names or identity features, enabling generalization to teams never seen during training. A rigorous Leave-One-Competition-Out (LOCO) evaluation demonstrates that Si