AI
Inference Costs Move From Footnote to Line Item
Training got the headlines and the capital budget. The recurring cost of running models in production is what finance departments are now trying to forecast, mostly badly.
Enterprise Software
AI
AI Spending Moves From Experimentation to Infrastructure
Corporate AI budgets are shifting out of innovation labs and into core operating lines, a change that is quietly redrawing how companies account for technology itself.
AI
AI Agents Take Over the Back Office, Quietly
The most consequential AI deployments of the year are not chatbots. They are agents reconciling invoices, chasing documents and closing tickets nobody wanted to touch.
AI
Companies Cannot Tell Whether Their AI Works
Deployment has run well ahead of measurement. A striking number of production systems have no defensible answer to whether they are performing better than what they replaced.
Technology
The Trillion-Dollar Rewrite Nobody Can Postpone
The systems running banks, insurers, states and hospitals are older than the people maintaining them. The modernization wave has finally started, forced by retirements rather than ambition.
AI
Model Deprecation Becomes an Enterprise Risk
Companies built production systems on models that vendors retire on their own schedule. The resulting migrations are unplanned, unbudgeted and increasingly frequent.
AI
Small Models, Big Deployments
The frontier gets the headlines, but the volume is moving to compact models that run cheaply, privately and close to the work.