Category: AI Economics
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What the first careful head-to-head test of AI agent teams tells us about cost. Bottom line A team of AI agents is not automatically better than one good agent. In a new independent test, teams of AI agents increase costs anywhere from 1.8 to 5.1 times as much as a single agent, and only one…
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Microsoft is running the same platform play that gave it 30 years of enterprise dominance. The question isn’t whether Copilot is good. It’s whether your team will use it. Disclosure: I spent 26 years at Microsoft. That gives me a clear view of how Copilot fits when you’re already deep in Microsoft 365, and where…
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Bottom line: AI is not a fad, it is not a bubble waiting to pop, and it is not something you can wait out. The strongest signal across labor markets, capital investment, infrastructure buildout, and adoption curves is that AI is becoming core business infrastructure, much like the internet and the smartphone. That does not…
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Cisco’s Antares Says It Depends What You’re Asking It Cisco just released Antares, a family of small, open-weight AI models built to do one narrow job inside a codebase: find the files most likely to contain a known vulnerability. Cisco’s benchmark shows the largest version, Antares-3B, coming very close to GPT-5.5 on that specific task, with File…
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What the Industrial Revolution Teaches SMBs About AI Bottom line: The expert warning is less about AI hype and more about timing. More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, warned this month that AI could drive an economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution, but on a much shorter clock [1]. The…