At the close of 2025, AI enthusiasm is met at every turn with doubt. Alongside remarkable AI progress and successes, the specter of a potential AI bubble, energy emergencies and failing GenAI pilot projects loom large. Looking ahead, SAS experts predict that 2026 will be a year of reckoning, when the feet of AI power brokers will be held to the fire to realize ROI and confront ethical and economic quandaries head-on. Despite legitimate concerns for what lies ahead, the future is hardly all doom and gloom. SAS thought leaders ...