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AI Was Supposed to Save Companies Money. Instead, It's Blowing Up Budgets

https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/ai-was-supposed-to-save-companies-money-instead-its-blowing-up-budgets-in-a-big-way/91372478

5•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago

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brucemag•53m ago

Seen this at a lot of companies. It's a legitimately hard problem - you want to let the best users feel unleashed and be free, but you have to worry about token budgets!

ChrisArchitect•35m ago

Just a bunch of links to previous stories.

Some discussions:

Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602571

AI's Affordability Crisis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646276

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335388

Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Apple's Chipmaker Pledges $100B More for US Plants

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/16/tsmc-pledges-100-billion-for-us-plants/

1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Skupa – Map Azure SQL/Synapse dependencies, read-only and offline

https://www.skupa.io/

1•StudioHeat•1m ago•0 comments

Driving

https://nonogra.ph/driving-07-16-2026

1•filup•1m ago•0 comments

What good are wings without the courage to fly?

1•koobear•3m ago•0 comments

We Open-Sourced an Identity Lifecycle Management Platform

https://omnitrust.com/why-we-open-sourced-ilm/

1•carolineilm•3m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Secure AI apps, one device at a time

2•XiaHua•5m ago•0 comments

Chatto Is Robots

https://hmans.dev/blog/chatto-is-robots

1•janpio•5m ago•0 comments

Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html

1•igonvalue•6m ago•0 comments

Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

https://twitter.com/JohannKurtz/status/2077113148524417439

2•vinyl7•6m ago•1 comments

1-Bit LLM in the Browser

https://huggingface.co/spaces/webml-community/bonsai-webgpu

2•simonebrunozzi•7m ago•0 comments

'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'

https://techwerkers.nl/en/posts/aanval-microsoft-ai-datacentrum/

12•lowbar•7m ago•0 comments

Aspen Acres fire over containment line as hot, dry conditions continue in CO

https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/16/colorado-wildfires-aspen-acres-fire-acres-gold-mountainfishhoo...

2•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

This Is the Oldest Amber Ever Found

https://nautil.us/this-is-the-oldest-amber-ever-found-1282716

2•Brajeshwar•10m ago•0 comments

The Taliban's Drone Manufacturing Program

https://www.themiddleeastuncovered.com/p/inside-the-talibans-secret-drone

2•alephnerd•10m ago•2 comments

Google's AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

https://search.google/intl/en-IN/ways-to-search/ai-mode/

2•adithyaharish•10m ago•0 comments

15 years of helping software engineers relocate: Here's what changed

https://relocateme.substack.com/p/the-relocation-game-in-tech-has-changed

3•andrewstetsenko•11m ago•0 comments

The Odyssey Was Written for Sailors

https://theheasman.com/the-odyssey-was-for-sailors/

2•TheHeasman•11m ago•0 comments

Are we getting dumber, or is the world just changing?

https://giuliofaldetta.substack.com/p/are-we-getting-dumber-or-is-the-world

2•whiteleopard•11m ago•0 comments

Relay.app Shutting Down

https://www.relay.app/

2•marcuskaz•12m ago•0 comments

They Got Something on the Screen

https://graybeard.ing/they-got-something-on-the-screen/

2•satvikpendem•15m ago•0 comments

You can see inline diffs in Claude Code for free, similar to Cursor

https://www.norrin.dev/

2•gagewoodard•15m ago•0 comments

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/

9•uneven9434•15m ago•1 comments

AI Appreciation Day: Security Leaders Say the Celebration Needs an Asterisk

https://www.itsecurityguru.org/2026/07/16/ai-appreciation-day-security-leaders-say-the-celebratio...

2•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Agntcy – Open Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents

https://docs.agntcy.org/

2•dannyobrien•19m ago•0 comments

Nobody Needs to Impress the Salesman

https://writing.sidharthkakkar.com/p/nobody-needs-to-impress-the-salesman

2•sikakkar•20m ago•0 comments

Iran asked Yemen's Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route

https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3mqrlesy5ms2b

3•ceejayoz•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust

https://github.com/cmk/connections

2•partialsolve•21m ago•0 comments

First geomorphological evidence of landslides on Pluto

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103526002769?via%3Dihub

2•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?

2•JoeAltmaier•22m ago•0 comments

Making Software - How to make a font

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-to-make-a-font

2•Brajeshwar•25m ago•0 comments