model-economics

Two Companies, One Gap: Gemini 4 Argon Accelerates While Microsoft Loses Its Office Chief
A report from the international police organization INTERPOL, covered by CNBC, says AI is raising both the speed and the scale of cyber threats. The report pointed at agentic systems doing work that used to require a person to click, and it asked companies to prepare for attacks that arrive faster than the people assigned…

The Priceless AI Just Got a Price Tag
A few months ago the posture inside American companies was simple. Buy the best model money could rent, point it at everything, and let the tokens fly. The Wall Street Journal now calls the replacement posture “thrift-maxxing,” and the description is precise: teams route each task to the cheapest model that can actually finish it,…