
One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time
Builders are running three AI orchestration platforms at once, driven by distrust in any single vendor's security controls. But a fifth still can't halt a runaway agent's spending.
Taryn Plumb
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
Analysts say the fix isn't avoiding DeepSeek entirely — it's knowing exactly which tasks to hand it and which to keep away from it.
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AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
One engineer's $600-a-day AI bill. A support automation that blew through the budget. Three companies share what they now track instead of raw spend.
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Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
One startup said it cut cyberattack containment time from seven hours to twelve minutes. See four other approaches to running AI agents safely at scale.
Taryn Plumb
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn't the models — it's everything built around them
One Target store's AI-driven inventory call looked like a mistake. Analysts let it run anyway — a small bet that's shaping how much autonomy AI earns next.
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Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt
Instacart's engineers no longer read most of the code they ship. CTO Anirban Kundu explains why that's made tech debt a non-issue.
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Brex built its AI agent policy by watching what agents actually do, not by writing rules first
Brex's open-source proxy watches how AI agents actually behave, then drafts the security policy itself — leaving an LLM judge to review only the trickiest 3% of requests.
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The AI architecture that let Liberty Mutual shrug off the Fable 5 outage
How one 114-year-old insurer built an AI architecture flexible enough to shrug off a major model outage entirely.
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Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models
Most enterprise data is messy and proprietary, exactly what trips up general-purpose models. Here's the architecture built to handle it, and why it generalizes beyond one industry.
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Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous
Fewer probabilistic decisions, more fixed rules, human sign-off on every call — Morgan Stanley's playbook for agents in a job with zero room for error.
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How Shopify built an AI stack that doesn't care which models survive
Farhan Thawar on the proxy, distillation strategy, and circuit breakers keeping Shopify's AI stack stable no matter which models survive.
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Stanford's DeLM cuts multi-agent task costs 50% — without a central orchestrator
Shared failures, verified gists, no boss — Stanford researchers say this is what multi-agent coordination should look like.
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