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Do AI Tokenomics Matter More Than Model Benchmarks? with Chris Potts - #776

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As reasoning models consume more tokens and AI systems become more expensive to run, understanding what those tokens actually buy is becoming increasingly important. In this episode, Stanford professor and Big Spin co-founder Chris Potts joins us to discuss AI tokenomics and his research into “tokenflation”—the possibility that token usage is growing faster than the measurable value those...

AI Readiness Assessment For SMBs: Which AI Wave Is Your Team Actually Operating In

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Agentic AI is the loudest topic in data and analytics, and if your leadership has started asking where your team stands, a shrug is no longer an acceptable answer. BARC’s 2026 research offers a better one. In corporate performance management (CPM), one of the most natural use cases for agentic AI, the barriers organizations report […]

Powering AI is an architecture problem

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On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

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OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most important open problems in mathematics. Under normal circumstances, that solution would be a huge feather in OpenAI’s cap. But the announcement has been overshadowed by accusations…

Bodhan AI Releases Four Indic Models for OCR, Translation and Speech 

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A Hindi lesson can mix English terms (loan words), scanned tables and handwritten equations. Making that content searchable, translating it and reading it aloud requires several kinds of AI. Bodhan AI and AI4Bharat’s four new models target those jobs across Indian languages.  Released in September 2026, the models cover document parsing, translation, speech recognition and speech...

Power BI Q&A retirement reminder: February 2027 timeline update

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In December, we announced the retirement of Power BI Q&A, our legacy natural-language querying experience, with retirement planned for December 2026. To give current Q&A user's additional time to assess their dependencies and transition to newer Copilot-powered solutions, we’re extending the retirement date to February 2027. This post recaps the affected experiences and provides updates on...

You hired consultants to map your AI opportunity. Now who’s putting it into production?  

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Your AI roadmap is complete, yet no one clearly owns the work of turning it into a production system. Many AI initiatives stall during this handoff. The artifacts of a serious engagement are in place: mapped processes, prioritized use cases, an approved business case, and a roadmap built around real operating needs. The work behind... The post You hired consultants to map your AI...