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Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it

Once again, AI is a money incinerator.

Jason Weisberger
Jun 24, 2026
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The artificial intelligence revolution has reached the point where management begs employees to stop feeding PDFs into the robot so it can burp out PowerPoint decks nobody wanted in the first place.

The entire AI bubble is built on the idea that someday, somehow, customers will pay for the insane costs of using AI. T…

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