AI Will Not Deliver Enterprise Value Until We Let It Act
Inside AI News, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
Enterprises have not underinvested in AI. They have overconstrained it.
By late 2025, nearly every large organization is using artificial intelligence in some form. According to McKinsey's 2025 State of AI survey, 88 percent of companies now report regular AI use in at least one business function, and 62 percent are already experimenting with AI agents. Yet only one-third have managed to scale AI beyond pilots, and just 39 percent report any measurable EBIT impact at the enterprise level.
This gap is not a failure of models, compute, or ambition. It is a failure of execution authority.