The paradox
KPMG’s 2026 enterprise AI survey reports that eighty-two percent of large organizations are actively scaling AI. PwC’s same-year report finds that sixty-eight percent cannot reliably connect those AI systems to the core systems where the business actually runs.
That gap is the story of 2026.
This is a placeholder for the full Integration Paradox article. The published version covers the EU AI Act timeline, KPMG and PwC 2026 data, the security implications, and the change-management dimension that most AI roadmaps ignore.