Splunk: downtime costs $600B a year, 68% of tech leaders fear AI agents

Splunk's 2026 research, released by Cisco with Oxford Economics, estimates unplanned downtime costs Global 2000 companies $600 billion annually, at an average of $15,000 per minute. 68% of surveyed technology leaders worry about unpredictable AI-agent behavior, and all reported AI-related downtime.

• Unplanned downtime costs Global 2000 firms $600B a year
• Average downtime cost reaches $15,000 per minute
• 68% of tech leaders worry about unpredictable AI agents
• Nearly 75% of new Google code is AI-generated, up from 50%