When satellites become AI agents, space data centers become the next AI frontier

For decades, space infrastructure was largely understood through the language of rockets, satellites, launch capacity, communications and exploration. The enterprise technology world watched from a distance. Space was important, but it was not usually treated as part of enterprise infrastructure strategy. That assumption is beginning to change. As artificial intelligence drives unprecedented demand for compute,…

You’re calling the same AI API thousands of times: Why redundant requests are driving hidden AI costs

During a recent advisory engagement, I watched 50 different customers ask the same return-policy question on a Tuesday. The AI support system answered all 50 correctly. It also executed fifty independent calls to a frontier model, ingested the same internal policy document 50 times, and generated essentially the same response 50 times. The company paid…

The compounding enterprise

On July 20, a federal judge gave final approval to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work for roughly 500,000 books it pulled from pirate libraries to train its models. Here’s the detail most of the coverage missed: The court had already ruled that training AI on copyrighted text…

AI and the workforce have the same blind spots

Every AI rollout comes with the same internal pitch: We’ll move faster, and we’ll stay accurate, because humans will review the output. It’s a two-part promise. Most organizations have spent the last two years measuring the efficiency of this, but not many have seriously tested the second part. New research suggests we should be questioning…

IT jobs report: Demand for AI fluency rises

AI skills continue to drive IT job postings, with 75% of US technology openings requiring AI fluency in June, up 178% year-over-year, according to the Dice July 2026 Jobs Report. Roles in the software industry continue to rise, ranking second behind consulting as the industry seeking the most IT help right now. Aerospace/defense, finance/banking, and…

AI sovereignty through diversification

Technology procurement has changed more in the last year than in the previous 20 due to a combination of political, economic, and technological factors. Countries and organizations are realizing that dependence on a handful of platforms is no longer sustainable. For enterprises, this was brought home with the on-off-on saga of Anthropic’s Fable 5. For…