Technology Costs

Spectro Cloud crosses $1B valuation with $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs

Spectro Cloud raised $100M at a $1B+ valuation, with Goldman Sachs leading, as enterprises push hard to contain runaway AI infrastructure costs.

60% of agentic AI costs go to response refinement, and most enterprises are already over budget

McKinsey finds 93% of enterprises are exceeding AI budgets as agentic systems scale, with cost structures that most operators haven't fully mapped.

Palo Alto Networks CEO puts a number on the AI cost problem: 90% token price drop needed

Nikesh Arora says token costs must fall 90% within two years for enterprise AI to scale — and Uber already burned its full-year AI budget by April.

Eighty percent of U.S. factories have no automation. Here's what's holding them back

Most U.S. manufacturers believe AI is critical to their future, yet few have deployed it broadly. The gap between intent and execution is widening.

Three fault lines reshaping enterprise AI in 2026: adoption, cost, and security

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in US business adoption, Uber burns its 2026 AI budget by April, and autonomous agents expand attack surfaces by 450%.

Old Systems are Creating Cybersecurity Challenges for Healthcare Orgs

Healthcare organizations face significant hurdles in maintaining strong and secure cybersecurity measures as tech evolves. Some of that is due to aging network infrastructures and high costs of essential software, which have created complex cybersecurity challenges. As healthcare continues to rely increasingly on digital solutions for patient care, the stakes for securing these systems…

Can Technology Solve a Skilled Labor Shortage?

At Cable-Tec Expo 2019 in New Orleans, one main topic arose in almost every conversation: the cost of creating new public infrastructure or replacing what currently exists. One company, Clearfield, believes it has a solution to this problem. It is aiming to cut fiber deployment costs considerably by reducing the need for skilled labor. Daniel Litwin,…