Insight Type: Podcast Insight Brief

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith
August 18, 2026

Runaway Token Costs Are Killing the Frontier AI Monolith

Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models....
Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap
August 17, 2026

Terrestrial Data Centers Are Getting Expensive Enough to Make Space Cheap

Futurum’s Brendan Burke on why a third of the $3 trillion AI data center buildout goes off-grid by 2030, and what launch, satellite hardware, and solar density must do before...
The End of Token Maxing Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models
August 10, 2026

The End of Token Maxing: Why Pragmatic AI Engineering is Replacing Frontier Models

Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by...
The Data Foundation Problem: Why "Bring AI to Your Data" Beats the AI Data Lake
August 3, 2026

The Data Foundation Problem: Why “Bring AI to Your Data” Beats the AI Data Lake

OpenText's Waqas Ahmed and Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick on why the fastest AI pilots fail for a data-governance reason nobody names in the demo. From Utilizing AI, "Trusted Data Foundations for...
August 3, 2026

The Data Foundation Problem: Why “Bring AI to Your Data” Beats the AI Data Lake

OpenText's Waqas Ahmed and Futurum's Keith Kirkpatrick on why the fastest AI pilots fail for a data-governance reason nobody names in the demo. From Utilizing AI, "Trusted Data Foundations for...
The Software-Defined Vehicle is Winning the Compute War and Losing the Owner
July 29, 2026

The Software-Defined Vehicle is Winning the Compute War and Losing the Owner

Futurum analysts Olivier Blanchard and Brad Shimmin on the moment the car stopped being a car, and why the sharpest pushback isn’t about EVs, autonomy, or subscriptions at all. From...
July 29, 2026

The Software-Defined Vehicle is Winning the Compute War and Losing the Owner

Futurum analysts Olivier Blanchard and Brad Shimmin on the moment the car stopped being a car, and why the sharpest pushback isn’t about EVs, autonomy, or subscriptions at all. From...

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And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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