The AI Was the Cheap Part.
Before you approve the AI budget, check what it leaves out. The real cost of AI is everything you build around the model. Here is how to find it.
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What Work Should an AI Agent Do? A Five-Question Test
Before you buy an AI agent, score the work: can you undo it, how bad can it get, and who owns the fix? A five-question test for business leaders.
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Who’s On Call for Your AI Agents?
Ask who gets paged when a server fails at 2 a.m. and you’ll get a name instantly. Ask who gets paged when an AI agent misbehaves and watch the pause. IBM expects most large enterprises…
The Frontier Hit the Brakes. Your Excuse Just Expired.
Saturday, Anthropic’s CEO asked his own industry to slow down. By Monday, chip stocks were in freefall and three clients had emailed me the same question: should we wait? No. Read the reason instead of…
Google Stopped Sending People. Your Website Was Built for a Model That’s Ending.
Traffic down 33–38% and nothing broke. Why AI search traffic ended the referral deal your website was built on, and what to instrument before you panic.
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The App Store for AI Just Opened. Your Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for It.
For two years the AI market was a bake-off over whose app was smarter. A quiet standard called MCP just changed the question entirely from “which AI app should I buy?” to “can my business…
Your Enterprise Playbook Is Why Your AI Project Failed
I spent 20 years running technology at IBM and Kyndryl leading 200+ engineers, governance boards, phased rollouts, the whole apparatus. That same enterprise playbook is quietly strangling AI projects right now. Not because the discipline…
Your AI Vendor Is Hoping You Don’t Ask About Security
I’ve sat in a lot of vendor demos. The slides are beautiful, the demo runs flawlessly, and nobody says a word about where your data goes or who can read it. That silence isn’t an…
Your AI Pilot Worked. That’s Exactly Why It’ll Fail in Production.
The most dangerous sentence in AI right now is “the pilot was a success.” A failed pilot tells you the truth while the check is small. A successful one tells you a flattering lie—that the…
Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Budget in Four Months. The Real Lesson Isn’t About Money.
In April, Uber admitted it spent its full 2026 AI budget in four months — and its own COO couldn’t connect the spend to customer value. The easy read is “AI is expensive.” That read…