For all the excitement surrounding AI agents and their potential to reshape enterprise operations, a new survey from Deloitte suggests many organizations are still building the guardrails long after the engines have already started running.
As organizations continue rushing to integrate artificial intelligence into everything from internal operations to customer-facing services, regulators are trying to address how to move fast without leaving privacy protections behind.
European Union lawmakers reached a provisional agreement early Thursday on a new package of amendments to the bloc’s sweeping AI Act, striking a compromise designed to ease compliance burdens for businesses while tightening restrictions on some of the most controversial uses of artificial intelligence.
In today’s enterprise, change behaves less like a calendar event and more like a weather pattern that refuses to settle down. Markets shift faster than strategies can catch up, teams appear and disappear like pop-up shops, and regulators rewrite the rules just as everyone finishes reading the old ones. Yet most organizations are still using management models that behave like they live in a museum. Reports, governance frameworks, and analytics engines were built for a world where “change management” meant an annual meeting, not a daily lifestyle.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is urging banks, insurers and superannuation trustees to move faster, and think harder, about how they govern artificial intelligence, warning that risk controls are struggling to keep pace with the technology’s rapid expansion across the financial system.
The question has been circling European policy circles for years, but at BRIDGE 2026, it was brought into sharper focus. Are the very regulations designed to safeguard rights and build trust also making it harder for Europe to innovate?
The European Commission is turning to how artificial intelligence operates on mobile devices, unveiling preliminary measures that could force Google to open up key parts of its Android ecosystem to rival AI services.