Why Companies Are Already Blowing Through Their 2026 AI Budgets in Just Two Months

As OpenAI’s Sam Altman admits sudden AI cost spikes have caught businesses off guard, a quiet corporate crisis is taking shape.

BY KIT EATON @KITEATON

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“The future is going to be good for the AIs regardless; it would be nice if it would be good for humans as well.”

That’s a quote from Ilya Sutskever, an AI researcher who cofounded OpenAI and became its chief scientist. It reminds us that though AI is powerful, it’s very controversial—for a long list of reasons. One of the biggest concerns is that as companies race to deploy AI, they may be displacing real people from real jobs as AI takes........

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