# 79% Adopted AI Agents; 11% Actually Run Them

- slug: 79-adopted-ai-agents-11-actually-run-them
- date: 2026-03-31
- category: Agentics

IBM spent $11 billion on Confluent. Now it has to prove the data infrastructure bet was the right move — and that it can build the software layer fast enough to make it count.

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