Artificial Intelligence

Models, inference economics, tooling and how machine learning reaches real products.

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Why AI inference costs keep falling faster than anyone predicted

Cheaper serving is reshaping which AI products can exist at all — and the pressure is moving from training budgets to runtime margins.

Elena Marsh · February 18, 2026 · 8 min read

Classification, extraction and routing are moving off frontier models and onto systems small enough to run on a laptop.

Elena Marsh · February 11, 2026 · 6 min read

Autonomy demos well and deploys badly. The companies making it work are the ones narrowing scope rather than widening it.

Daniel Okoye · February 5, 2026 · 7 min read

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