KPMG: 29% of senior business leaders struggle to understand and control AI costs
The post KPMG: 29% of senior business leaders struggle to understand and control AI costs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. KPMG’s Global AI Pulse for the second quarter of 2026 found that nearly a third of corporate leaders cannot understand or control what their AI systems cost to run. Companies that laid off employees and restructured their budget in favor of what they expected to be cheaper AI technology are now being charged by the token, leading to massive AI spending bills. Is AI too expensive for companies to use? KPMG polled 2,145 C-suite and senior business leaders across 20 countries for its quarterly Global AI Pulse survey. The results show that 29% of executives struggle with operating costs, especially as AI use grows past the testing stage to using it on a large scale. A separate third of respondents named their own thin grasp of AI economics as an obstacle to rolling out AI agents at all. The main reason for this struggle is that AI companies are now charging bas