Enterprise AI Spending Controls: Lessons from Meta and Microsoft
Microsoft cut monthly AI spending ceilings in its cloud and AI division from $100,000 per employee to roughly $10,000. Meta watched its Claude Code user count fall from about 60,00...
AI Prescribing Regulation: Utah Removes Human Oversight
Utah just became the first US state to let AI prescribe medication without a clinician signing off on every case. Not reviewing flagged exceptions. Not spot-checking samples. No ca...
AI-Designed Hardware: Inside OpenTPU’s Open-Source Chip
A chip design mistake costs millions and months. You don't get to patch silicon after it ships, which is why hardware engineering has always been one of the slowest, most heavily r...
AI Mathematical Reasoning: What It Means for Operations
Every AI tool you've trialled on the shop floor has had the same flaw: it produces answers that sound right. A deviation summary that reads well. A root cause suggestion that fits ...
AI Risk Tolerance: Sam Altman’s Tradeoff, Decoded
Sam Altman said society will have to "accept some bad things" for AI to deliver its benefits. That framing made a lot of people uncomfortable. It shouldn't. You already run that ca...
AI Quality Standards: Scale Craft Without Generic Output
Stripe's Katie Dill has a name for what happens when AI makes building fast and easy: "zombie UI." Software that looks finished, passes review, and has no point of view behind it. ...
AI Consciousness Debate: 6 Questions Operations Leaders Need
Two operators look at the same vision system flagging a weld defect. One overrides it because "the machine doesn't actually understand what it's looking at." The other accepts ever...
AI-Generated Evidence Just Got a Sentence Overturned
An Arizona appeals court just threw out a 10-year sentence because of a video. Gabriel Paul Horcasitas was convicted of shooting Christopher Pelkey at a red light in 2021. Before s...
AI Model Welfare Debate: What Manufacturers Should Ignore
Last week, a GitHub project running "torture" experiments on locally hosted LLMs set off a furious argument on X about whether the models were suffering. Effective altruists demand...
Local AI Visual Search: Lessons from SCM on macOS
Your plant records thousands of hours of inspection footage, line camera feeds, and operator training video. Try finding the three seconds where a seal failed last March. You can't...
