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The top business concerns to look out for in 2026
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Instead of just helping individual users, the top concern is whether AI will really help companies to prosper.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin, Brian O’Keefe, Bernhard Warner, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly and Sarah Kessler
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded last summer that while organisations had invested from US$30 billion (S$38.6 billion) to US$40 billion into AI, they had basically nothing to show for it. Ninety-five per cent of organisations were getting zero return, they wrote in a report based on structured interviews, public AI initiatives and announcements and surveys.
