More than two-thirds of organizations are unprepared for threats targeting AI.

When companies officially deploy specialized AI development environments like Cursor or Cline, usage grows by 400% in the first four months after rollout.

83.8% of enterprise data input into AI tools flows to platforms classified as medium, high, or critical risk.

Retail firms achieved 24x increase in employee AI adoption.

Manufacturing companies saw 20x growth in employee AI adoption.

10.8% of AI-generated material enters source code management systems.

Retail organizations have surged to second place of AI adoption with 26.4% of employees now regularly using AI tools.

Technology companies still lead in AI adoption with 38.9% of employees using AI tools.

Financial services have 26.2% employee AI adoption.

Gemini usage increased 171.9% in the seven weeks following its 2.0 release.

Professional services have 17.2% employee AI adoption.

Only 11% of AI tools assessed qualify for low or very low risk classifications.

R&D materials account for 17.1% of sensitive data going into AI.

Currently, 34.8% of all corporate data that employees input into AI tools is classified as sensitive. This is a substantial increase from 27.4% a year ago and more than triple the 10.7% observed two years ago.

End user engagement with DeepSeek through its web interface surged dramatically following the R1 release, settling at 672.8% growth relative to pre-release baselines by the end of the first seven weeks.

45% of organizations took up to three months to implement their most recent automation.

44% of organizations say it’s difficult to hire for automation and AI roles.

Manual work still dominates daily security operations for many teams, with 35% reporting being overwhelmed with repetitive tasks.

45% of organizations took up to three months to implement their most recent automation.

35.9% of AI-generated content flows into email and messaging platforms.