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Around the world, CEOs are not ex­pect­ing much in 2026.

Ac­cord­ing to the PwC’s 2026 Glob­al CEO Sur­vey, on­ly three in ten (30 per cent) CEOs are con­fi­dent about rev­enue growth in 2026 as most strug­gle to turn AI in­vest­ment in­to tan­gi­ble re­turns while one in eight (12 per cent) of CEOs say AI has de­liv­ered both cost and rev­enue ben­e­fits, while com­pa­nies that have scaled AI with strong foun­da­tions are pulling ahead.

The re­port said there were al­so ris­ing con­cerns about tar­iffs and cy­ber risk that add to pres­sure, as CEOs ques­tion whether they are trans­form­ing fast enough.