ab 19 August 2026 Global Research AI Research CFO Feedback on AI/Token Spend Summary This week we attended a private dinner hosted by one of the larger AI-natives for about a dozen Bay Area enterprise (mostly tech sector) CFOs, with the key topics being AI usage, ROI and token efficiency. The consensus was that AI spending is still ramping, in most cases materially, but that CFOs have clearly begun to pivot to methods (model routing, usage caps, caching) to bring AI spending under control. This feedback sup ...