Info Tech – AI Trends, 2026

The report highlights five key AI trends for 2026 in emerging and leading-edge technologies and practices.

Key findings include foundational AI principles rewriting organizational DNA, AI strategies informed by emerging principles, essential risk management due to new AI risks, AI reinventing IT with new solution categories such as copilots and vibe coding, maturation of agentic AI driving exponential enterprise growth, and critical concerns around AI sovereignty and regulatory control. The report is based on over 700 survey responses from IT leaders, mostly in North America but globally represented, across multiple industries. AI strategy is aligned with organizational strategy and includes AI vision, value drivers, strategic AI principles, and foundational AI principles.