Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company identified five actions that chief information security officers (CISOs) should take by the end of 2026 to combat accelerating technological disruption.

Firms on the 2026 IDC FinTech Rankings Top 100 grew their 2025 financial-services revenue almost 20% year over year, which is nearly double the 12% growth in overall IT spend, according to results announced today by IDC Financial Insights. Jacksonville, Florida-based FIS, IDC’s #1-ranked technology provider to the financial services industry, led a list in which the share of revenue coming from financial services jumped from 48% in 2024 to 60% in 2025, signaling deeper, more concentrated investment in the sector rather than broader participation across other industries.

Global semiconductor revenue is expected to reach $1.6 trillion in 2026, increasing 92% from 2025 revenue of $809 billion, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. In 2027, it is forecast to total $1.9 trillion.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides for Cybersecurity find that enterprises need unified visibility, continuous monitoring and rapid threat analysis and response to defend expanding operations. Rather than building a perimeter around a set of on-premises systems and workloads, organizations now require multiple integrated security systems covering hybrid and multicloud environments, distributed applications, autonomous agents and remote devices. Software providers are responding with AI-enabled enhancements that accelerate discovery of vulnerabilities and identification of root causes while reducing administrative tasks. These advances allow IT technicians to reliably resolve a higher volume of incidents.

Global semiconductor revenue surpassed $425bn in 2Q26 reaching another all-time high as the market grew a record 31.4% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), according to new research from Omdia. AI demand and strong memory prices continued to be the leading market dynamics, taking total semiconductor revenue for the first half of 2026 to $752 billion. The 31.4% QoQ increase surpassed the previous sequential growth record of 29.2% in 1Q26. Since Omdia began tracking the semiconductor market in 1Q02, only 10 out of 97 quarters have recorded sequential revenue growth above 10%. The last four quarters beginning in 3Q25, have all recorded double-digit sequential growth, with 3Q26 expected to follow the same trend.

The 2026 ISG Provider Lens Microsoft AI and Cloud Ecosystem report for Switzerland finds that the evolution of technologies, regulations and AI consumption models is raising enterprise expectations for providers to deliver transparent operations, clear business impact and ongoing responsibility for operations.

India’s traditional PC market (encompassing desktops, notebooks, and workstations) recorded steady growth in Q2 2026, with total shipments reaching 3.9 million units, representing 12.1% year-over-year (YoY) growth, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Growth was broad-based, with both consumer and commercial segments expanding and all three product categories, notebooks, workstations, and desktops, posting positive YoY growth. The quarter’s performance reflects continued channel confidence and forward buying behaviour across enterprise, SMB, and, to some extent, consumer channels.

Worldwide AI-optimized infrastructure as a service (IaaS) spending is projected to grow 96% through 2026, reaching $42 billion, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides™ for Analytics report that AI and machine learning are now standard capabilities for generating insights that are delivered through business intelligence tools. With agentic AI, these systems are beginning to link analysis directly to execution by coordinating actions required to implement decisions.

The consumer segment remained flat YoY in Q2 2026, as demand plateaued amid rising device costs, though sales were sustained by promotions on e-tailer platforms. The commercial segment grew 10.1% YoY, supported by new manifesto deals concluded during the quarter and strong demand from the enterprise segment, where very large businesses (VLBs) and large businesses (LBs) posted YoY growth of 52.2% and 37.4%, respectively. SMBs also showed signs of recovery, as businesses placed orders following fiscal budget allocations.

By 2029, most privacy incidents will result not from the direct exposure of personally identifiable information (PII), but from AI-generated inferences about individuals, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.

Worldwide end-user spending on AI models and platforms is projected to total $64 billion in 2026, up 63.4% from $39 billion in 2025, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Spending on GenAI models is forecast to grow 117%, while AI platform spending will rise 36.9% in 2026.

AI is rapidly gaining influence over purchase decisions as consumers rethink which sources they should trust. More than half of consumers say they don't fully trust any single source of information, according to new research from Boston Consulting Group. But AI is already among consumers’ most trusted sources, along with experts and peers, and they expect their trust in it to increase by 15 percentage points by 2030, faster than any other source.