AI Shifts from Selling Intelligence to Managing Infrastructure
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-07-09
The author argues that the era of "blindly paying a premium for advanced intelligence" is coming to an end, and the future will shift toward treating intelligence as infrastructure to be managed.
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