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The Hour Was Always a Proxy
McKinsey’s clients have started refusing to pay by the hour. The reason they give is blunt: with AI in the room, billing by time spent has become a kind of theater. If the slide deck that took a junior associate three days now takes ninety minutes, what exactly is the client paying for when the…
The Money Isn’t Leaving. It’s Changing Seats.
Bitcoin slipped to $63,000 this week, and Ethereum, XRP, and Dogecoin all shed about four percent in a day. The number attached to the move was the part worth pausing on: four hundred billion dollars, said to be rotating out of crypto and into AI. Read quickly, that’s a story about one asset class losing…
The Meter Comes Back
Broadcom did something this week that sounds boring and isn’t. It announced a way to run AI agents the way companies already run their ordinary web apps — packaged, secured, sitting on the same plumbing as everything else in the building. Agent Foundations, they’re calling it. Strip the branding away and the message is plain:…
The Web Left a Room Empty for Forty Years. Machines Just Moved In.
There is a number in the HTTP spec that has sat unused since the early 1990s. Status code 402: Payment Required. The people who wrote the rules of the web reserved it, then walked away. They knew money would need a place in the protocol someday. They just couldn’t agree on what that place should…
Everyone Is Quietly Buying the Floor They Stand On
Microsoft spent the better part of two years renting its intelligence. The deal with OpenAI gave it a head start nobody else had — a frontier model wired into its products before the competition finished its slide decks. This week it announced its own family of models, pitched as a way to lean less on…
The Frontier Becomes a Part on Someone Else’s Board
OpenAI’s newest models showed up this week in a place they were never supposed to live: Amazon’s catalog. GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Bedrock, Amazon’s cloud, which is another way of saying the most coveted thing in technology can now be ordered the same way you order storage or bandwidth. A…