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The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?

Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more

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Gergely Orosz
May 28, 2026
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The Pulse is a series covering events, insights, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Hit reply and share it with me.

Today, we cover:

  1. New trend? ROI questions for AI investments. I talked with engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies, where spending on AI agents is being dampened via per-engineer mont…

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