{"id":23325,"date":"2026-10-24T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=23325"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:06:18","slug":"ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/?p=23325","title":{"rendered":"AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don&#8217;t expect it to pay for itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don&#8217;t expect it to pay for itself<br \/>\nForrester says only isolated wins are likely, while &#8216;good enough&#8217; open-weight models soak up the tokens<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/10\/21\/ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself\/5304466\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/10\/21\/ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself\/5304466<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don&#8217;t expect it to pay for itself Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while &#8216;good enough&#8217; open-weight models soak up the tokens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/10\/21\/ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself\/5304466\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.theregister.com\/ai-and-ml\/2026\/10\/21\/ai-will-eat-a-fifth-of-tech-budgets-in-2027-but-dont-expect-it-to-pay-for-itself\/5304466<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[51,5],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-23325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-en","tag-ai-business"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23326,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23325\/revisions\/23326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/sites\/ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}