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McKinsey: Enterprise AI ROI arrives, while earnings impact stays flat
Aug 25, 2026SOURCE: theregister.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, the old system is still translating AI effort into static bookkeeping—meaning choice favors actors who can rewire workflows, not just buy models.
AI spend is rising, but enterprise business metrics tied to AI remain stubbornly unchanged. The signal suggests the inversion: tools are deploying before the system that converts them into value has updated.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.