AI devours a fifth of companies' IT budgets (computerworld.com)

This makes sense. It will take awhile before business processes have AI fully integrated.

Actual article: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/21/ai-will-eat...

> 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”