AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, according to Apollo economist
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If Apollo’s read is right — zero net payoff outside tech despite heavy AI spend — boards are about to start asking for hard ROI, not pilots and press releases. Operators should be instrumenting AI projects with P&L-level metrics now, before finance does it for them.
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