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Budget season is starting and most finance teams are finding the AI line is the most evasive line on the page.

You lived through the year. AI spend came in higher than planned and moved in ways nobody could foresee or forecast. And when the board asked what it produced, the honest answer probably was “we’re working on it.”

Only 7% of leaders say they have ...


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People run Codex on their own laptops. When Codex is signed in with a ChatGPT subscription, OpenAI’s own admin console shows who used it and how much: messages and credits. What it doesn’t show is what any of that usage was for, or how it compares to what your team spent on other AI tools.

The CloudZero desktop agent for m...


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Businesses are willing to spend on AI. Research from Deloitte found that in 2025, 85% of organizations increased their AI investments. This year, 91% plan to do the same.

All this spending, how...


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The best-funded budgeting team on earth just re-budgeted AI. Again.

On July 22, 2026, Alphabet’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi stood on the Q2 earnings call and raised the company’s 2026 capital spending guidance to between $195 billion and $205 billion....


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Why this matters

Months have different numbers of days, and a monthly cost chart built on raw totals mixes that calendar difference into the trend. A 28-day February next to a 31-day March shows a 10.7% increase even when daily spend never moved. The same math works in reverse: real growth in a short month can look flat, hiding an increase worth inv...


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