TLDR: AI has moved past the hype phase inside enterprises. The challenge is no longer adoption, it is execution. Costs are exploding, hybrid data estates persist, most models run on incomplete data, and security sits in a paradox of confidence and anxiety. The next era won’t be won by who experiments first, but by who masters scale. Enterprises were promised an AI revolution. What they got instead was ballooning costs, fragmented data, and a security landscape that looks less stable the deepe...

TLDR: AI has moved past the hype phase inside enterprises. The challenge is no longer adoption, it is execution. Costs are exploding, hybrid data estates persist, most models run on incomplete data, and security sits in a paradox of confidence and anxiety. The next era won’t be won by who experiments first, but by who masters scale. Enterprises were promised an AI revolution. What they got instead was ballooning costs, fragmented data, and a security landscape that looks less stable the deepe...