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AI Spending Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget

Original: Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget

A Wall Street Journal report argues that companies are struggling to plan budgets for AI, because usage-based pricing such as per-token costs, rapidly changing model prices and unpredictable adoption make spending volatile and hard to forecast. The piece has struck a chord with business and technology readers debating how firms should manage costs that scale in unpredictable ways.

Why now: Businesses are actively grappling with unpredictable AI costs as adoption accelerates, making the budgeting problem widely relatable right now.

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