The 20% Club: Why Most Companies Are Losing the AI Race
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about enterprise AI in 2026: the technology works. It works really, really well. Just not for you. That’s the takeaway from PwC’s massive new AI Performance Study, which surveyed 1,217 senior executives across 25 sectors. The headline stat is brutal: 74% of all AI-generated economic value is being captured by just 20% of organizations. The other 80%? They’re splitting the scraps. The Canyon Nobody Talks About Winner-take-most dynamics aren’t new in tech. We saw it with cloud, with mobile, with the internet itself. But AI is compressing a decade’s worth of stratification into two or three years. ...