AI's Budget Reckoning Has Arrived
LinkedIn, Saturday, September 12th, 2026
Futurum Weekly: 46.9% of enterprises overran AI budgets as spending control becomes AI's new barrier.
The Futurum Group's weekly roundup reports that 46.9% of 1,636 surveyed enterprise technology decision makers exceeded their AI budgets in 2H 2026, while only 5.6% came in below plan.
It notes that just 36% of AI platform decision makers track cost per request and 15% track token efficiency.
The issue covers HPE's equity warrant deal with Oracle, Qualcomm's up-to-$60 billion AWS silicon and optics agreement, and AI moves by Adobe, Atlassian, Nextworld, Salesforce, and Solo.io. It also introduces the Futurum API and MCP Connector.