Corporate leaders have been pouring resources into artificial intelligence, hoping for groundbreaking gains in productivity.
After nearly a year of rapid uptake, new research hints that the rush may finally be reaching its natural limit.
Fresh data from corporate adoption trends for AI, which tracks purchases made by companies for artificial intelligence technologies, showed that business uptake stalled at forty one percent in May. Notably, nearly half of large firms had some kind of AI tool in place, while adoption among small businesses languished at thirty seven percent.
The index, which crunches spending patterns from around thirty thousand companies, is not a perfect snapshot. Purchases of AI tools sometimes hide elsewhere in a company’s budget and may not always be tracked under tech expenses.
Still, the plateau marks a shift in sentiment. More executives are bumping up against the current constraints of artificial intelligence tools.
Take Klarna: the buy now pay later company once pledged to replace swathes of its customer support agents with AI. That plan hit serious bumps, forcing the company to rehire workers after customers complained about diminished service.
Even more striking, analytics from S and P Global now show forty two percent of companies have dropped most of their experimental AI projects. That’s a leap from just seventeen percent a year ago.
Big Upgrades For Apple’s Vision Pro
As some businesses step back from artificial intelligence, Apple is sprinting ahead with sweeping updates to its Vision Pro headset. At this year’s developer conference, the company spotlighted visionOS twenty six with features aimed at both regular consumers and large organizations.
A standout change: widgets in visionOS now feel like they belong in your real surroundings. Want a digital weather display that shifts with the outside temperature, or a jukebox you can move around your living room? It’s all made possible with richer personal customization.
Apple’s new photos app harnesses artificial intelligence to inject life and depth into two dimensional images. The idea is simple yet powerful: your old snapshots will seem to pop into three dimensions, letting you peek around objects as if you could physically step into the scene.
Browsing the web now comes alive as well. Safari on Vision Pro will let visitors read select articles where photos seem to spring out of the page, creating an immersive reading experience free of pop-ups and banners.
Video calls set for a shakeup, too. Apple’s latest update deploys advanced machine learning and meticulous rendering to give its digital avatars — called Personas — more true to life hair, skin, and even side profiles.
There are substantial updates for businesses as well. Teams can share headsets securely, and a new “for your eyes only” feature means confidential files stay protected from prying eyes.
Apple also announced partnerships with software makers for professional grade immersive apps. Design companies can now show three dimensional models to clients in real time, wherever they are.
And for those wanting precise control, Logitech Muse has been tailored for Vision Pro. This new accessory gives creative professionals a way to draw and collaborate inside a shared digital world.
With support for more languages and ways to control apps with just your gaze, recent industry caution on future AI progress, Apple’s investment in spatial computing is deepening, even as some parts of the industry question whether all their bets on artificial intelligence will pay off.
