AI NewsThe End of AI Subsidies is Forcing Enterprises to Rethink AI Agent Economics

The End of AI Subsidies is Forcing Enterprises to Rethink AI Agent Economics

4:44 PM IST · July 17, 2026

Progress Software’s Chief AI Officer Ed Keisling says enterprises are reassessing AI deployments as discounted frontier models fade, exposing the true cost of running AI agents and accelerating a shift toward smaller, cheaper models.