The Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index Economy chapter reports that global corporate AI investment more than doubled in 2025, with private investment growing 127.5% and generative AI funding rising over 200% to capture nearly half of all private AI funding. Revenue at frontier AI companies is rising at historically fast rates, but compute costs are also at record levels, with Google alone reporting over $150 billion in annual capex. Labor effects are emerging unevenly: software developer employment for workers aged 22 to 25 has fallen nearly 20%, one-third of organizations anticipate workforce reductions, yet large-scale aggregate job losses have not yet appeared in overall employment data. For financial institutions, this data provides a quantified baseline on investment scale, adoption rates, and early labor displacement, all of which bear directly on contested questions around AI revenue durability, capex sustainability, and workforce exposure.
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