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Usage-Based Pricing for Copilot Is Good for Microsoft's Investors. Read That Sentence Again.

06.20.26 2:52 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

TheStreet ran a piece this week arguing that, of Microsoft's two Copilot announcements, the shift to usage-based pricing matters more to investors than the DeepSeek flirtation. That read is correct. It is also the tell.

Here is what Microsoft actually did. Copilot Cowork, the agent that reaches acros...

Pega's fix for runaway AI costs: stop the agents from thinking at runtime

06.13.26 11:55 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The news

At its PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas on June 8, 2026, Pegasystems announced Pega Infinity 26, which it says will be available in Q3 2026. The principal change is commercial: Pega is moving away from per-token pricing for its AI agents toward a flat charge per completed "case," ...

The Illusion of Value: Why Salesforce’s Agentic Work Unit is the New "Bad Query" of the AI Era

03.01.26 4:16 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The News

On February. 25, 2026, Salesforce announced a pricing and metrics update. During the company’s Q4 FY2026 earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff, together with CMO Patrick Stokes, unveiled the Agentic Work Unit (AWU). Positioned as a metric to quantify the labor performed by autonomous digital syste...

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