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AI
Brussels Enforced the Cheap Half of Its AI Law and Delayed the Expensive Half
On August 2 the EU began enforcing AI Act transparency rules while pushing the costlier high risk requirements back more than a year, after founders reported spending a third of their budgets on compliance.
Business
Rippling was burning 40 percent of its engineering budget on AI tokens. It fixed that without cutting anyone off.
Rippling's CFO found the company on pace to spend 40 percent of its R&D headcount budget on AI tokens, growing 80 percent a month. The fix was not a budget cap, it was a router, and the math behind it is worth copying.
AI
The price of AI just fell off a cliff. That is the best news your business got this summer.
OpenAI cut prices up to 80 percent and open-weight models are the reason. Here is what a business should actually do about it, and why competition, not regulation, is driving the cost down.
AI
Microsoft is spending $2.5 billion because most AI projects fail. That should tell you something.
Microsoft's new Frontier Company embeds engineers inside businesses to deploy AI. The number underneath it, that most AI pilots go nowhere, matters more than the press release.
Security
A vendor says 88 percent of companies had an AI agent security incident. The vendor sells the fix. It is still true.
The scary agent-security stat comes from a company that profits from fear, so I checked it against sources that do not. The risk holds up, and the causes are boring.
Software
Gartner says AI agents put $234 billion in software spending at risk. Read the fine print before you cancel anything.
The $234 billion headline is real, but Gartner also predicts 40 percent of agentic projects get canceled by 2027 and calls most agents fake. Here is the honest read for a business that pays for SaaS.
Business
The AI Gold Rush Has a Customer Problem. You Are Not Invited.
OpenAI and Anthropic just committed billions to deploying AI inside large enterprises and PE portfolios. Here is why that is the best news Florida SMBs got this year.
General
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