Bank of America plans to double AI budget next year
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Bank of America plans to double its AI budget next year, citing identifiable operational gains amid broader ROI questions.
Inspect the evidence
- Inclusion basis
- AI in finance
- Publisher and source type
- Banking Dive · INDUSTRY NEWS
- Published by source
- 23 September 2026
- Collected by OneBench
- 24 Sept 2026, 09:01 UK
- Original headline
- Bank of America plans to double AI budget next year ↗
Stored source excerpt
The bank’s co-president Wednesday pointed to “clearly identifiable” gains from AI, as questions swirl around how soon returns on investment will be seen.…
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Institutional assessment
So what
Major peer banks accelerating spending despite broader return-on-investment skepticism sets a spend-justification benchmark for executive committees.
Do what
Benchmark your current artificial intelligence capital allocation against major peer expenditure trajectory ahead of the next planning cycle.