{"slug": "ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts", "title": "​AI Is Dominating IT Budgets: Are You Making The Right Cuts?", "summary": "Forbes Councils member David Bennett reports that AI is dominating IT budgets, leading C-suite leaders to deprioritize data protection and cyber resiliency, which are often treated as a checkbox rather than a priority. Bennett urges organizations to make the right cuts by balancing AI investments with essential data protection and cyber resiliency measures.", "body_md": "# AI Is Dominating IT Budgets: Are You Making The Right Cuts?\n\nBy David Bennett, Forbes Councils MemberSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)Data protection and cyber resiliency are far too often a checkbox for C-suite leaders, deprioritized in favor of flashy tools or AI solutions.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts-69e9", "published_at": "2026-08-13 12:45:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 13:44:12.519771+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["David Bennett", "Forbes Councils"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-is-dominating-it-budgets-are-you-making-the-right-cuts.jsonld"}}