Faultline approached IBC’s numerous AI-native and agentic AI demos with the caution you would expect from an antelope drinking at a watering hole, fully aware a crocodile could snap its face off at any moment. And rightly so. As we concluded last week, simply throwing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at existing media software is a trivial exercise without practical use cases. Practical examples of multi-agent systems achieving anything tangible for media companies, pay TV operators, broadcasters, or sports leagues remain few and far between. One of only a handful of demos that stood out from IBC 2025 (outside of the HMS AWS) came from Witbe, the French video quality assurance specialist. Witbe is an interesting case, considering the…