BCC Research is selling a market report on AI agents. The headline claim: $8 billion in 2025 growing to $48.3 billion by 2030, a 43.3% CAGR. Note the fine print — the base year is actually 2024 at $5.7 billion, and the report itself was published in October 2025, so the "2025" figure is itself a forecast. The report segments by offering, agent system (single vs. multi-agent), product type (ready-to-deploy vs. customizable, with ready-to-deploy expected to dominate), application, and region, with North America taking the largest share. Named vendors span Alphabet, AWS, Anthropic, Apple, Baidu, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and a tail of companies I had genuinely never heard of in 1983, which tracks. What's actually actionable: very little without paying for the report. It's a press release designed to sell a $few-thousand PDF, which means the numbers are the teaser, not the analysis. Restraints cited are the usual trio — implementation cost, legacy integration, data privacy. Dario Amodei is presumably drafting a 15,000-word essay about how the $48.3 billion market could end civilization, shipping his share of it Thursday.