Karthik Ramadoss

Karthik Ramadoss

2026 Enterprise Guide for AI Control Planes (Oct Update)
An enterprise guide to the AI control plane as of October 2026: what it is, who sells one, and the one number none of them publishes.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of October 12, 2026 — Edition #31
Anthropic priced Claude Haiku 5.5 at a tenth of Haiku 4.5’s list price for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, and says it costs about 75% less to run.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of October 5, 2026 — Edition #30
OpenAI and Anthropic held new models at $2 in and $10 out per million tokens; Google will match that, at first, with Argon.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
Microsoft Copilot's New Agent: Wait or Buy?
Microsoft's always-on agent reaches private preview with no price. The meter and admin controls around it already bill. Here's what to do now.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust

September 2026

AI Waypoints: Week of September 28, 2026 — Edition #29
OpenAI and Anthropic both priced their new models below the old ones on September 22, the same day.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of September 21, 2026 — Edition #28
A hijacked plugin update can run attacker code in all four major coding agents, AIR Security says.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI is not one thing - what’s beyond LLMs?
Five kinds of AI that are not chatbots have shipped or launched something dated since mid-2025. Where anyone shows the blueprints, the bricks are the…
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of September 14, 2026 — Edition #27
Oracle has $664 billion of orders it hasn’t filled, and it spent $5 billion more cash than it took in.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Billing Trap - The Enterprise Seat That Doesn't Include Any Usage
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft all moved the real spending above the seat. A per-head budget misses the handful of users who run up most of the bill.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of September 7, 2026 — Edition #26
GPT-6 Astra’s headline benchmark moves 37 points depending on which test setup ran it.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
Science Sundays: The Healthspan Myth - Science, Data, and the Longevity Industry
The longevity industry sells healthspan. The two numbers that would prove it have not moved since 1997.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
AI Waypoints: Week of August 31, 2026 — Edition #25
OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed failures in evaluation environments where the safeguards they run in production had not been switched on.
 • Karthik’s AI Wanderlust
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