‘Sometimes it’s more expensive than having humans’: Ecolab gets real about AI’s limits in the physical world

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Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.”…

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  • Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu said customers “really demand 99.9999%” accuracy, while frontier models “could be at 85%.”…
  • Reported by Fortune and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:08:16 UTC.

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