Deals & M&A

Deals & M&A

Mergers, acquisitions, private equity, venture capital and IPOs: who is buying whom, and for how much.

Enterprise AI bottleneck shifts from models to legacy infrastructure

Tech leaders from LinkedIn, Walmart and Zendesk warned that outdated enterprise systems, rather than AI models, are the primary constraint on deploying agents at scale, signaling a shift in corporate IT budgets.

3 min read · 17 Jul 2026

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Enterprise AI bottleneck shifts from models to legacy infrastructure

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