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The Frontier Is Moving. Your Stack Isn’t.

OpenAI missed its own user and revenue targets this week. The story matters, but not for the reason most coverage is pointing to. It's the supplier-side confirmation of what's happening on

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Right-Sizing AI: Bigger Isn't Smarter. It's Just More Costly.

.4 watt-hours. That’s what a single GPT-4o query costs in electricity, according to a benchmarking study published on arXiv last year that tested 30

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