Hype Cycle stories

NeuBird AI's agentic SRE platform autonomously resolved 230,000 alerts in a year, saving 12,000 hours and USD $1.8 million in costs.

TeamViewer boss Oliver Steil says 2026 will mark AI's shift from hype to Monday-morning results, human-centric workflows and trusted autonomy.

Global AI spend will soar to USD $2.52trn by 2026, Gartner says, as enterprises pour cash into infrastructure and AI-optimised servers.

Nintex warns enterprise agentic AI will face a 2026 reality check, with tighter budgets, targeted use cases and tougher governance.

AI in 2026 will be less about dazzling breakthroughs and more about fragile data, hybrid clouds and investor pressure for real profits.

Boards will pivot AI from hype to hard numbers in 2026, slashing speculative spend and backing smaller models with provable returns.

Enterprises brace for a cautious 2026, rolling back risky AI pilots and recasting generative tools as governed, human-supervised teammates.

Black Kite launches AI Agent to automate third-party cyber risk investigation, reporting and decision-making, boosting efficiency for security teams worldwide.

Gartner identifies sovereign AI, AI agents, prompt engineering, and machine customers as key AI trends set to transform government technology by 2030.

Upwind was named 2025 Company of the Year in the CNADR market by Frost & Sullivan, praised for rapid growth and innovative cloud-native security platform.

Commvault topped five of six use cases in Gartner's 2025 Critical Capabilities for Backup and Data Protection Platforms report, leading in cloud and recovery.