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The Hidden Agentic AI Tax
This piece, originally published in early 2026, looks at the hidden costs of running agentic AI in production — the parts of the bill that don’t appear in vendor pricing pages but show up materially in deployed-system economics. Eighteen months into the agentic-AI deployment cycle, the analysis below holds up; if anything, the gap between…
Sizing the agentic AI market: $40 billion now, $140 billion by 2030 — if three triggers hit
Information Matters has published its first quarter 2026 research report on the agentic AI market. The central estimate for 2026 is $40 billion, with a range of $33–$48 billion. That number sits deliberately between two much louder ones: the $12–18 billion you get from application-layer analyses that exclude the foundation-model layer, and the three-digit billions…
Last week, SpaceX acquired an option to buy Cursor for sixty billion dollars.
Cursor is a code editor — an application that software engineers use to write and edit code. It is three years old. It was founded in 2022 and until recently was largely unknown outside developer communities. In the past twelve months it has become, by some measures, the fastest-growing developer tool in the history of…
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Three numbers came out this week that don’t quite add up.
PwC reports that 88% of US business leaders plan to increase their AI budgets over the next twelve months, driven specifically by enthusiasm for agentic AI systems — AI that doesn’t just answer questions but takes actions, runs processes, and operates with a degree of autonomy. Deloitte, surveying the same universe of organisations, finds that…
Continue Reading Three numbers came out this week that don’t quite add up.
