Issue 034 · Monday, 27 July 2026
What the machines cost
6 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilThis week the biggest companies in the world say how much they are spending on AI.
- Elena MarshWe count what AI costs to the dollar, every ninety days. Nothing anywhere counts what it does to work.
- James VahidEvery headline called it an AI restructuring. The company's own announcement never says AI.
- Dr. Ines CalderónThe money buys sheds full of machines. Britain has a queue for the electricity to run them.
- Owen RhysEurope's AI law changed this morning. The hardest part of it has been put back to the end of next year.
- Ada OkaforThe machines go in the main accounts. The cost of letting people go sits outside them.