{"id":216542,"date":"2026-05-19T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:30:16","slug":"the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Companies Are Struggling to Scale AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/\">The Real Reason Companies Are Struggling to Scale AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 11:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pymnts.com\">www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mature AI Infrastructure but Data Quality Issues:<\/strong> Financial services has the most advanced AI infrastructure, but the main barrier is insufficient data quality for broader use cases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fragmented Systems in Healthcare:<\/strong> Healthcare firms face the challenge of integrating fragmented clinical and operational data systems, making it difficult to deploy useful AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organizational Alignment in Media and Advertising:<\/strong> Media and advertising companies need to address organizational issues such as skills gaps, governance, and leadership alignment to scale AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Budget Growth is Universal:<\/strong> Across financial services, media, and healthcare sectors, AI budgets are increasing, though the reasons for spending differ between sectors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operational Infrastructure as the Main Barrier:<\/strong> Despite high budgets and strong executive support, organizations struggle to scale AI due to gaps in operational infrastructure rather than technological capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Different Sector Challenges:<\/strong> Each sector faces unique obstacles: financial services with data quality, healthcare with system and data integration, and media and advertising with organizational alignment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Vision for AI Usage:<\/strong> Over 80% of leaders in all sectors believe AI will augment human decision-making in the next five years, highlighting the shared goal of AI deployment but the varied paths to achieve it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Reason Companies Are Struggling to Scale AI https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/artificial-intelligence-2\/2026\/the-real-reason-companies-are-struggling-to-scale-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 11:27:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/companies-AI-scale.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216546,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216542\/revisions\/216546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}