Gartner's Q2 2026 advisory piece reports that few organizations have proven AI value at scale despite record investment, with 81% of CIOs citing skill gaps as a major impediment and World Economic Forum leaders raising concerns about ROI, pricing volatility, and commoditization. The piece identifies vendor instability risks, including bankruptcy, acquisition, and IP access loss, as compounding the scaling problem, and positions agentic AI as a primary R&D differentiator going forward. For financial institutions, this is a demand-side signal: enterprise AI spending has not yet converted broadly into measurable, recurring business outcomes, which bears directly on renewal, expansion, and revenue durability assumptions embedded in AI software vendor valuations.
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