Tag: Numbers
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What a Claude Code Max plan pays for shifts around a lot
It’s hard to tell how many tokens you’re getting, and it changes on you for mysterious reasons: Before the change, somewhere between 30% and 67% of requests included a thinking block, and output averaged 250 to 960 tokens per request. After it, 95% to 100% of requests included thinking, and output rose to 2,500 to…
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How much AI runs on Kubernetes?
The problem appears when AI workloads enter that mature infrastructure. According to the figures Katie presented, 66% of organizations are already deploying AI workloads on Kubernetes. But only 7% are doing it daily, while 47% deploy them occasionally. Of the organizations using Kubernetes for AI, 23% have fully adopted the Kubernetes stack and 43% have…
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The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here
AI has created around 1m new jobs in America against roughly 200,000 layoffs attributed to it since mid-2023, with five industries at the heart of the data-centre build-out adding about 320,000 jobs above trend and data-centre installation work advertising wages about 40% above comparable roles elsewhere. Against that, employment among customer-service workers is down about…
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Tech sector continues to shed workers amid AI shift
The technology sector shed about 14,700 workers in August while other industries added 86,000 tech workers, and unemployment among IT professionals rose to 3.1% from 2.8% in July. Tech companies announced over 155,000 job cuts in 2026 against 19,000 new hires, with 320,000 active postings requiring AI skills. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Tech sector continues…
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One CEO in eight got what AI was sold as, survey
PwC asked 4,454 CEOs what AI did to their revenue and costs over the last twelve months. The biggest single box on the matrix, at 42%, is the one where nothing moved. One in eight got both benefits at once, and 13% came out worse.
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Looming wave of inheritances will further increase inequality in Dutch housing market
Van Bruggen pointed to figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), which show that the richest 10 percent of Dutch households own over 56 percent of the total wealth of all households. There is also a significant divide between homeowners and rental households. In 2024, the average net worth of a renter amounted to €40,400, and that…
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Gemini has a billion users now
Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. … Alphabet Inc. put the app at 650 million monthly users last October and 750 million by February. Pichai cited 900 million on stage at Google I/O in June,…
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mainframes still run money
COBOL remains a widely-used but aging programming language that works across mainframe computers and legacy operating systems, supporting more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, according to mainframe provider IBM. 🔗 AI shifts mainframe modernization strategy
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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Things that don’t work are disliked
Per the report, 60% of consumers in the U.S. say that brands that use “AI” in their messaging are a turnoff, and 86% don’t fully trust AI and still want to explore original sources. Notably, 42% of consumers said that AI-generated answers without clear attribution are trusted less than airline fees, confusing privacy policies, and…
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That means each employee’s AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package. Last year, there were a few anecdotes about high growth tech companies spending $100,000/year per head on tokens. That seems like it’s coming to end.a 🔗 Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
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