The cost of intelligence?

Artificial intelligence may prove to be one of the most transformative technologies in human history. But amid the excitement over smarter models, autonomous agents, enormous data centers and seemingly unlimited computational power, we may be overlooking a much simpler question: Does AI create more value than it costs? My position is that the ultimate constraint…

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A decision hiding in plain sight

Picture two retail chains. Akkar & Co Group is the giant — hundreds of stores, the biggest revenue in the sector, the name every shopper recognizes. Tripoli Boutique is the smaller player — a regional chain with a loyal but modest footprint, competing against Akkar & Co’s sheer size. Both start the same way: manual…

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The hidden economics of AI context

Over the last three decades, the major innovations in enterprise tech have focused on scaling the infrastructure. From VMs, to containers, to big data, to supporting millions of concurrent users on web and mobile applications – the focus was evolving distributed systems to handle more traffic and data, faster, without falling over. What we’re seeing…

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