State of AI: Widely Used for Planning -- Drives the Business at Just 25% of Firms
AI adoption remains uneven, with only a quarter of surveyed firms naming AI as a primary driver of business strategy by the end of 2025, though that share more than doubled from early 2025. Fifty‑five percent say AI influences strategic planning, while just 16% are still learning its capabilities. Production‑grade deployments lag behind budgets, reaching 34% for generative AI and 15% for agentic AI, highlighting a gap between investment and scale. Data maturity and governance emerge as the chief obstacle to moving AI from pilots to enterprise‑wide execution.
From Pilot Purgatory to Productive Failure: Fixing AI's Broken Learning Loop
AI pilots frequently stall between proof‑of‑concept and production, often due to outdated quarterly KPIs, governance vacuums, and slow feedback loops. Executives argue that linear metrics clash with AI’s dynamic nature, causing drift and delayed corrective action. To close the gap,...
Simplified Security Vs. Concentrated Risk: What CIOs Should Learn From Google’s Wiz Deal
The European Commission has given unconditional approval to Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security specialist Wiz, clearing the final regulatory hurdle for the sector’s largest deal. The purchase signals a broader industry move toward embedding security directly into hyperscaler infrastructure and...
Industrial AI: Essential Strategies for Transformation
Claudio Fayad outlines three core strategies for industrial AI adoption: modernize legacy automation without halting production, fuse IT and OT functions to create a unified data pipeline, and implement a robust data‑fabric to centralize real‑time information. By layering AI on...
