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Beyond GPUs and API Calls: Understanding the True Cost of AI Initiatives
If you're building with AI, the first costs you notice are the obvious ones—GPU hours, cloud infrastructure, ...
Anthropic Keeps Signaling Where AI Cost Governance Needs to Go. It's Not All the Way There Yet
On July 2, Anthropic shipped a release that got a fraction of the attention a new model gets and deserves ten ...
Govern AI at the Gateway, Not on Every Laptop
For months, teams have been quietly duct-taping the same thing together: a way to put Claude Code behind a ...
Your AI Storage Bill Is the Cost No One Is Watching
Every FinOps team in the world is staring at the same line item right now: GPU. Inference spend, training ...
FinOps X 2026 Conference Recap: Key Takeaways and Product Launches
FinOps X 2026 made one thing clear: the discipline has outgrown its cloud cost management origins. With ...
The Two Faces of Kubernetes Waste
Walking the floor at KubeCon Amsterdam, I kept having the same conversation - different company, different ...
Anthropic Just Launched Managed Agents. Let's Talk About How We're Going to Pay for This.
Anthropic dropped Claude Managed Agents this week. It's genuinely impressive — fully managed runtime for ...
Azure OpenAI Pricing and FinOps Best Practices
Introduction As organizations rapidly adopt generative AI, Azure OpenAI usage is growing—and so are the ...
Cloud Vendors Finally Agreed on Commitments. AI Vendors Didn't.
A 2026 follow-up to my RIP RIs piece — because the story didn't end where I thought it would.
What the Latest AI Cost Disasters Are Teaching FinOps Teams — 5 Lessons From the Trenches
A $30,000 surprise that was supposed to be impossible In April 2026, an AWS customer ran a few experiments on ...

