This week the bill for AI arrived. Accenture now funds only $29 of Claude usage per employee each month and charges anything above that to project or team budgets, after some heavy users ran up bills in the hundreds of dollars. CoreWeave shares fell 15.5% as yields on its debt approached 15%, a sign that financing AI cloud capacity is getting dearer. And Meta released Muse Wonder, its first frontier model, at $4 per million input tokens, giving buyers another contender to bargain with.

We also look at Workday replacing its employee home screen with Sana, an assistant whose agents complete HR and finance work, FIS selling US banks an agent built on Claude that assembles the evidence for money laundering investigations and Raymond James checking what its agents rely on against a knowledge graph. Plus GlobalFoundries using AI to clear almost all of the false alarms its IT teams used to chase and the NBA scanning game data, injury reports, social posts and betting activity to flag suspicious wagers.

The thread running through it: AI is becoming part of how work gets done, so leaders now have to decide who pays for it, what it costs to run and whether its work can be trusted.

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