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Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s applied
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Chief Information Officer Stephen Franchetti has enthusiastically embraced a wide array of artificial intelligence tools to bolster workflow automation for the tech firm’s 4,100 employees.
Key facts
- That OpenAI, which is also preparing for an IPO, bought back $7 billion of employee shares in a deal that valued the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion, the same valuation as its most recent funding round
- With global AI spending projected to total $2.5 trillion this year, a 44% increase from prior-year levels, CIOs and other technology leaders within the C-suite are finding themselves in a delicate
- Last week, Meta also launched its first AI coding agent, a new attempt to generate more revenue from AI as the company’s capital expenditures are on track to hit $130 billion in 2026
- Vendor-related losses, meanwhile, declined to 2.3% of incurred losses, down from 33.5% in the first half of 2025
Summary
At tech firm Samsara, Franchetti has authorized Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and the AI coding agent Cursor, while also developing an internal system that monitors all AI expenses that can be tracked daily. “It took us a while to settle on the right caps, to make sure everyone was well served,” says Franchetti. With global AI spending projected to total $2.5 trillion this year, a 44% increase from prior-year levels, CIOs and other technology leaders within the C-suite are finding themselves in a delicate moment on their AI journey. Some companies have reported that their 2026 AI budgets have blown past what they expected at the beginning of the year, without producing any corresponding value to the business.