AI devours a fifth of companies' IT budgetscomputerworld.com
Actual article: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/21/ai-will-eat...
Actual source: https://www.stateof.ai/2026-explore/
(Hint: It's never the register, I'm sorry if you work there)
>45% of AI decision-makers state that investments must yield a positive return within one year to be considered successful.
In other words, “Layoffs soon probably”
More layoffs! Keep the layoffs going until morale improves
This makes sense. It will take awhile before business processes have AI fully integrated.