For two years we treated AI tokens as free. In June the bill arrived. Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Copilot w...

For two years we treated AI tokens as free. In June the bill arrived. Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. Copilot went per-token and our devs burned 50 dollars each in the first hour.A chatbot stops when you stop. An agent keeps going.New issue of The CAIO: AI FinOps, the government letter that switched off frontier AI, Microsoft vs Knuth, Capgemini on falling trust in agents.https://romanoroth.substack.com/p/the-bill-arrives-is-this-ai-request #CAIO #AI #AIFinOps #CyberneticEnterprise