Every THE D[AI]LY BRIEF article on agent infrastructure — enterprise AI analysis, benchmarks, vendor comparisons, and ROI frameworks for technology and business leaders. Updated as new coverage publishes.
For one support agent at 300,000 sessions a month, Google's Agent Runtime bills $510 of compute, AgentCore $846 and Foundry prompt agents nothing. Memory, web search and idle timeouts set the rest of the bill.
October 31, 2026 · 15 min read
A 50-call agent run is about 51 billable units on Temporal, Inngest, Restate and DBOS, so 100K runs costs $80 to $310 a month. Step caps, licences and ops load decide the pick.
October 16, 2026 · 15 min read
OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, and Anthropic rents Mac capacity through AWS. The reason matters to your pilot: a desktop agent's unit of cost is a machine, not a token, and Apple's licence caps you at two virtual desktops per Mac while every cloud Mac host bills a 24-hour minimum.
September 1, 2026 · 15 min read
Parallel Web Systems hit $2B in five months with a web search index built for AI agents, not humans. Why CIOs need a budget line for agent web access in 2026.
May 3, 2026 · 10 min read