There's a hangover setting in across the AI-adopting business world, and CNBC's recent reporting captured it well: companies that rushed to "use more AI" are now realizing volume was never the goal. We call this tokenmaxxing — throwing every task at a model and hoping quality follows quantity. It do...

Anthropic's release of Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 quietly reset the economics of AI for small business. For two years, "good enough" AI meant choosing between expensive flagship models and cheaper models that produced inconsistent, off-brand output. That trade-off is gone. Near-flagship reasoning is...