Global Scans · Gartner · Weekly Summary

• [New] Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will reach 2.59 trillion dollars in 2026, up 47% year over year. Tommaso Maria Ricci
• [New] Gartner projects agentic AI will autonomously resolve 80% of common issues by 2029, with emphasis on the word common. Tommaso Maria Ricci
• [New] Enterprise AI spend crossed $2.5 trillion globally this year, and Gartner expects 40% of enterprise applications to run task-specific AI agents by December, up from under 5% just twelve months ago. Easy Comm
• [New] Gartner expects task-specific agents to spread across enterprise software by the end of 2026 while also predicting that more than 40% of agentic projects will be cancelled by 2027, mostly over integration failures. Tommaso Maria Ricci
• [New] Agentic AI will autonomously resolve 80% of common customer service issues without human intervention by 2029, reducing operational costs by 30% (Gartner). Hostinger
• [New] Approximately $450 billion is the best-case estimate for agentic AI's contribution to enterprise application software revenue by 2035, representing approximately 30% of all enterprise software revenue, up from 2% in 2025 (Gartner). Hostinger
• Gartner expects 90% of B2B buying to run through AI agents by 2028, pushing $15 trillion through agent exchanges. Mohammed Shehu, PhD - AI strategist
• Gartner has forecast a 6.1% uptick in 2026, compared with 14.7% for software and 31.7% for datacenters. theregister
• Agentic AI delivers that, and Gartner predicts that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic capabilities. Kore AI
• Gartner projects average PC prices will rise 17% by year-end 2026 as DRAM and SSD costs surge 130%. Tech Times

Last updated: 16 August 2026