Global Scans · Software · Weekly Summary

• [New] The software automation segment is predicted to lead with a share of approximately 44.6% in 2026, as it has become the core of mining automation due to its ability to connect and control everything in real time. Persistence Market Research
• [New] AI-driven cyber attacks, ransomware attacks, software vulnerabilities, risks associated with cloud security, and supply chain attacks are still top of mind for businesses across the globe. Boston Institute of Analytics
• [New] Google's Threat Intelligence Group successfully prevented cybercriminals from exploiting a zero-day vulnerability using AI to target software weaknesses. Yahoo News
• [New] IBM Bob is an AI-powered development tool for enterprise developers that can plan, execute, validate and govern multi-step modernization tasks across the software development lifecycle. Planet Mainframe
• [New] SCM software with agentic AI capabilities will grow to $53 billion by 2030. Glorium Technologies
• [New] Global software spending continues to grow, projected to reach roughly $1.43 trillion in 2026. Forbes
• [New] Worldwide AI spending is forecast to reach roughly $2.5 trillion in 2026, up about 44% year over year - split across infrastructure, services, and software. Unico Connect
• [New] The AI coding category is one of the highest-growth enterprise software segments in 2026, and Cursor's SpaceX deal will accelerate its positioning as the premium option for engineering-intensive organizations. Unrot
• [New] Industry observers expect machine-generated traffic to surpass human-generated traffic within 2027, prompting broader changes across cloud computing, search systems, databases, and enterprise software platforms. MarketingProfs
• [New] Gartner projects global software spending will reach $1.43 T in 2026, a 15.1% year-over-year increase. Zylo
• [New] The software and tooling layer alone was forecast at $26.5 billion in 2026, growing near 20% a year. TechnologyChecker.io
• [New] IT and software services are anticipated to dominate with a share of nearly 53.1% in 2026, as they are both creators and users of AI. Persistence Market Research
• [New] AI spending is now a capital-formation and infrastructure cycle as much as a software cycle: Global CapEx on data centers is forecast to reach $2.9 trillion through 2028. JD Supra
• 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% in 2025, and that agentic AI could drive around 30% of enterprise application software revenue, more than $450 billion, by 2035. Institutional Business Press
• 85% of software professionals expect to use generative AI in 2026 to augment tasks like coding and user story generation, up from 46% in 2024. TPLEX
• Gartner has identified agentic AI as the top strategic technology trend for 2026, predicting that by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024 [source: Gartner, Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2026]. TechTicker
• By 2035, agentic AI could account for nearly 30% of enterprise application software revenue - exceeding $450 billion. AIChainTech
• Gen AI could unlock $50 billion to $70 billion of insurance industry revenue, with the highest impact on marketing and sales, customer operations, and software engineering dimensions. Octo Telematics -
• Modern AI tools are better than the best cybersecurity professionals at identifying critical vulnerabilities in secure software, potentially making them the world's most powerful hacking tools. Council on Foreign Relations
• Spend on asset management software tools across the utilities industry will grow at a CAGR of 10% from $1.3 billion in 2022 to $2 billion in 2026. Default

Last updated: 22 June 2026