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International Business Times
International Business Times
Technology
Uche Nneoma / Espacio Media Incubator

Most Tech Leaders Have Canceled an AI Project Over Legacy System Limits, Research Shows

U.S. technology leaders are under higher AI-related strain than their global counterparts.

In corporate America, the push for AI-driven initiatives is not matching the technical reality: legacy code limitations. According to research from GFT Technologies, an AI-centric digital transformation company, 84% of CIOs and CTOs globally say that limitations in their legacy systems have caused their organization to cancel an AI pilot.

The 2026 'The Future of AI, Unfiltered' study, conducted by Wakefield Research for GFT, spanned 945 CIOs and CTOs across 19 countries at companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue.

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