{"id":238109,"date":"2026-06-27T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:50:12","slug":"digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging Out From The AI Money Pit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joemckendrick\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/\">Digging Out From The AI Money Pit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joemckendrick\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joemckendrick\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 12:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Spending Surge<\/strong>: Worldwide spending on AI is projected to reach $2.59 trillion this year with a 47% year-over-year increase, and is expected to grow to $3.5 trillion next year according to Gartner.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lagging Realization of AI Value<\/strong>: A Bain and Company survey finds that nearly 40% of companies achieve under 10% AI cost savings, falling short of their initial targets of 11% to 20%, but 90% are still planning to increase their AI budgets.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Value Delivery Gap<\/strong>: Despite increased spending and investments in technology, the value delivered by AI remains short of expectations, causing mild but persistent discomfort among executives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Obstacles to Realized AI Benefits<\/strong>: Key roadblocks include the need for human involvement due to limited autonomous agents, circular funding through previous automation savings, and persistent data integration barriers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Recommendations to Improve AI ROI<\/strong>: Bain suggests auditing previous tech ROI, establishing clear governance with a designated owner, using AI to automate specific data workflows, redesigning employee roles to support AI, and measuring overall enterprise-level outcomes rather than focusing on individual programs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging Out From The AI Money Pit https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/joemckendrick\/2026\/06\/27\/digging-out-from-the-ai-money-pit\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-27 12:28:00 Source Domain: www.forbes.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/6a3ff918911b53ca69a1239d\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238109","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\/238109"}],"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=238109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238111,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238109\/revisions\/238111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}