Your board asked for AI results, the spend keeps climbing and the return still stalls somewhere between the pilot and the P&L. This report reconciles more than 65 studies from 2025 and 2026 into one clear read for technology and talent leaders, separating the failure numbers everyone stacks and making the case, with the receipts, that the AI ROI problem is a human one and not a model one. Download it, put it in front of your leadership and stop guessing which half of your AI problem is really a hiring problem.