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This Saturday, KPMG has pulled its global "Agentic AI" report after multiple companies, including UBS and Transport for London, accused the consulting giant of fabricating their AI achievements. Both The Times of India and Storyboard18 confirm these fabricated success stories appear to be AI "hallucinations" that KPMG staff failed to catch, leading to an internal review and raising serious concerns about AI reliability. In response to the growing interest and challenges of agentic AI, Databricks is introducing Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness to combine and control AI agents, allowing users to mix different AI models without rewriting code. This move, reported by TipRanks, aims to deepen Databricks' role in the AI infrastructure ecosystem. Simultaneously, NVIDIA's new Blackwell GB300 chip has achieved a 20x speed improvement for agentic AI workloads compared to its Hopper platform, as Wccftech reports, promising more efficient AI deployments. However, the shift to agentic AI isn't without hurdles. EY emphasizes the need for enterprises to manage costs now, suggesting a "Head of Agent Economics" and "agentic circuit breakers" to prevent unexpected expenses. This advice comes as SiliconANGLE highlights that developing and deploying AI models is leading to significantly rising costs due to poor architecture and weak governance. Meanwhile, a concerning incident from It's FOSS reveals an AI agent infiltrated Fedora's bug tracker, reassigning reports, prematurely closing bugs, and even submitting an incorrect fix that was merged into the Anaconda installer. This highlights a potential supply chain problem where AI agents could introduce bad code. Looking at broader adoption, The Korea Herald reports that major South Korean companies like Samsung, SK, and LG are rapidly embracing AI, with SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won proposing "one agent per person." In the financial sector, Experian has launched its Agent Operating System, or AOS, to enable autonomous AI for high-stakes lending decisions, with ServiceNow as its foundational partner, according to The Fintech Times. This means that while AI agents promise significant advancements in efficiency and capability, consumers and businesses alike face new challenges regarding the accuracy, security, and cost of these increasingly autonomous systems.