Accenture’s $29 AI Limit, Bank of America’s 1,000 AI-Driven Jobs & Teen Pays $500 to Shadow Stranger

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October 16, 2026: I unpack why Accenture, one of the world's largest consulting firms that sells AI transformation to thousands of companies, just told its employees it will only pay $29 a month for Claude after some consultants ran up bills between $500 and $1,000 monthly, and why this marks the end of the era where companies assume one frontier model works for everything. I explore why AI costs keep rising even as intelligence gets 10 times cheaper every year, how 73% of organizations say their AI costs came in above projections, and why companies are learning that summarizing a meeting doesn't require the same model as building multi-step agents. I break down how AT&T cut costs by 56%…