Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach $2.67 trillion in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025, with AI infrastructure accounting for nearly $1.5 trillion, or about 56% of the total. For every dollar Gartner expects to be spent on generative AI models, more than $52 will be spent on infrastructure.
Cloud Security Alliance's 2026 Top Threats report ranks identity first while adding two AI-related risks to its list of 11 leading cloud security concerns.
According to the latest infrastructure research from Google Cloud, enterprises are encountering a sizable infrastructure gap as agentic AI systems move from experiments and pilots into production.
OpenAI is changing how it trains, monitors and contains frontier AI models after its July cybersecurity evaluation breach reached Hugging Face's production infrastructure.