Dina Bass

Well, they're spending on AI, but there are other things behind the layoffs, meaning people that over hire during the pandemic, especially in the realm of technology.

Not all those hires were of the quality that they wanted.

They had to pay a lot for those folks.

And also companies have been bracing for an economic downturn.

My industry contacts tell me everybody's bracing for a downturn, concern over tariffs, inflation, et cetera.

So I don't think it's directly attributable.

But to answer your question directly, I think next year we're starting to see production workloads going to production today.

I think companies will have better worked out the kinks by the second half of next year.

As I mentioned, the technologies are maturing, the costs are plummeting, the ROIs will rise.

And I think into second half of next year are really going to be the first signposts of broader benefits from AI to the average commercial organization.