The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.”
… These latest additions are part of the Pentagon’s broader effort to use AI tools to accelerate work and give the Department of Defense an edge without sacrificing security. They also highlight the absence of Anthropic’s Claude model and the Pentagon’s effort to work with other companies following its dispute with the frontier lab. — Read More
Daily Archives: September 2, 2026
Who gets to decide? The CIO and the new architecture of enterprise authority
For most of my career, technology governance began with a familiar set of questions: Is the system secure? Is it resilient? Does it meet the architecture standard? Can we afford it? Those questions still matter. But they are no longer enough.
AI is moving rapidly from producing content and recommendations to initiating actions. It can route work, change code, approve exceptions, communicate with customers, trigger transactions and coordinate other systems. In that environment, the most important question may not be what the technology can do. It is who, or what, has the authority to do it. — Read More
AI token prices are hitting new record lows
A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows this week, the latest sign of deflating prices in an increasingly competitive landscape.
The LLM Token Expenditure Index, a key gauge of daily prices from intelligence firm Silicon Data, fell to 97 cents on Monday. That marked the index’s lowest reading since its creation late last year and has fallen by more than half from the high recorded earlier this summer.
….The recent drop is driven in part by the rise of open-source Chinese models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 that can fetch lower prices than alternatives from leading frontier labs, according to a Tuesday post from Charles-Henry Monchau, investing chief at Syz Group. — Read More
The Five Horses of Bandwidth
Over the last two weeks, a series of events like Hot Chips have laid out the roadmap for the AI industry for the remainder of the decade.
And the conclusion is pretty straightforward: Bandwidth is king.
Investors love magic solutions, so here’s one: success in AI progress over the next five years at least will be proportional to how much bandwidth-pilled your bets are. Bandwidth constrains progress, and most hardware decisions today are moving toward increasing bandwidth. — Read More
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