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Vendors push AI from “cost center” to “asset”—capability tiering follows
Sep 29, 2026SOURCE: technologyreview.com
SO WHAT
As budgeting logic changes faster than choice architecture, the thousand-day window narrows toward passive user status instead of active build capacity.
The wire frames procurement around token spend, then steers buyers toward higher cloud model access. This shifts decision logic from optimization to model consumption as the phase transition accelerates.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.