Let the race to the bottom BEGIN!

Companies that are already losing $$, about to go IPO, and now they want to lower prices - I smell a classic HBR case study/fail article will result!

Reports are circulating that OpenAI and Anthropic are about to enter into a price war for their offerings. What ever happened to building true "value" that customers are ok to pay for? https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/your-chatgpt-bills-could-soon-get-a-drastic-price-cut/ #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #PriceWar #IPO #MArgins #Profit #Valuation #TokenCosts #ChatGPT #ClaudePro #Competition

#TheBiggerPicture: famous album covers shown with the worlds outside their margins: https://zorz.it/dmImF

#Audra #AlbumCovers #AlbumArt #famous #Aptitude #margins #MusicAlbumCovers

I wrote some thoughts about margins, potentially moving back to Italy, living on the edge(s), togetherness + a few other delirious epiphanies after spending one week with a group of wonderfully insane and astoundingly bright humans in the middle of the Appennine Mountains.

Here is to Dwelling in the Margins

#blog #post #blogPost #margins #margin #edge #livingOnTheEdge #Aerosmith #Italy #Italia #Marche #SOS #LaScuolaOpenSource #XYZ

“Bosses betting on #AI to slash #headcount and boost #margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the #strategy isn't working.

New research from #Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying #IntelligentAutomation - and found that around 80 percent had cut #staff as a result.

The returns? Elusive. Companies that reduced their workforces were just as likely to see negative outcomes or marginal gains as they were to generate any meaningful return on #investment”

PHB’s need to be schooled in critical thinking. Was there ever the case for Engineer replacement instead of AI as just another tool?

#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #ROE <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230631>