Luciano Ayres

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AI Spending Overruns and AI Tool Access Limits

Menlo says enterprise AI spend hit $176.8B, 2.5x over plan; Goldman limits AI coding tools to engineers; AMD data center sales up 97%; publishers sue Brave.

Leaders should tie AI budgets to measured use and decide who builds software.

  1. EvaluateAI Economics. AI spending is outrunning budgets and concentrating on three labs; CFOs need usage-based forecasts and a second-supplier plan before 2027 budgets close.
  2. EvaluateEnterprise Adoption. Goldman's move shows that broad access to AI coding tools is giving way to role-based access with engineering controls; CIOs outside finance face the same choice.
  3. MonitorAI Infrastructure. AMD's results and named Helios customers show a credible second source of AI accelerators, which matters for capacity and price negotiations.

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Where enterprise AI stands · Edition of October 25, 2026

AI is moving from experiment to default.

Leaders should plan for AI in production, disclosed and priced, not piloted.

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The Enterprise AI Casebook

What worked elsewhere, with the receipts.

Real organizations, the result they measured, and how far you can trust it.

  • 16 cases
  • 7 proven
  • 5 promising
  • 4 mixed results
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Code was never the bottleneck.

AI is great at building software right. It can't tell you whether you're building the right thing. Why verification and validation are different questions, and why the second matters more now.

On the horizon

Dates to plan for.

Rules that start to apply, and the outlook on what comes next.

  1. European UnionEU AI Act deadline to mark AI-generated content from existing systems
  2. European UnionEU AI Act bans AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery
  3. California, United StatesCalifornia rules for automated decisionmaking technology apply

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