Plus the perennial challenge that measuring productivity of software teams (and knowledge workers in general) remains an unsolved problem, so calculating an "ROI" on your AI spend remains furiously difficult
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2025 AI budgets shocked by 2026 agent token surge
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I think the real story here is that anyone who set their AI budget in 2025 is going to get a shock in 2026 because agent tools that didn't work in 2025 are good enough in 2026 that their teams will be burning way more tokens than anticipated
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Godofprompt gets OpenAI X analytics with one prompt, no code, using ego lite browser
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I pulled a full week of @OpenAI
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Mazda builds GenAI assistant on Databricks for service hotline
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@MazdaUSA built a GenAI assistant on Databricks to help service hotline agents navigate growing diagnostic complexity with faster, more consistent support. The team brought together vehicle history, recalls, diagnostic data, and service documents into a single governed -
AI automation’s unexpected costs lead some companies to rehire workers
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AI was supposed to replace workers. Now some companies are rehiring them. Plot twist. The rush to automate everything exposed a reality many leaders are now facing: AI can reduce costs.
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Microsoft Builds Super App to Unify Fragmented Copilots
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Fortune reports Microsoft is building a "super app" to unify its scattered Copilots. Under 4.5% of 450 million Microsoft 365 seats pay for Copilot. Around 20 million, out of nearly half a billion. The app is pitched as a fix for fragmentation. The open question is whether
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Opening AI Safety Evaluations and Datasets
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AI safety can't happen behind closed doors! So cool to see that the @AISecurityInst is releasing its evals, datasets, and models in the open on @huggingface, so researchers everywhere can scrutinize, reproduce, and build on them: http://huggingface.co/ai-safety-inst
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AI: Why Only the Best Product Matters in This Market
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A finance professor summed up every AI valuation in one line: nobody wants to use the eighth best product. That's the whole bet behind Anthropic's $1 trillion. In most industries you can be fourth and still run a good business. In AI, the theory goes, you're one of a tiny
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Power structures see limited window to influence advancing AI
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“Existing power structures are realizing there’s a finite time window for them to exert themselves in the AI dynamic — an intuition that could be mapped to influence going down as AI models get more powerful.”
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Mini DGX Spark under $1K would print money
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If they can come up with a "mini" version of DGX Spark that's under $1K they could be printing money like there is no tomorrow.