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Releasing new software used to be a big deal. You would set aside a Saturday night, wake up the on-call engineer, push the code, and hope that nothing broke before Monday morning. Then came feature flags, which changed everything without anyone noticing. Feature flags let you separate deployment from release, so you can send code to production in a dormant state and turn it on for users when you're ready. No more 1 a.m. maintenance windows.

When Anthropic broke the news of Mythos and Project Glasswing, the security community did what it always does. It published a flurry of papers asking "What does this mean for security?" It's a reasonable instinct, but it's the wrong question. The real question is who actually owns the problem?

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is reshaping connectivity across Asia, Africa and Europe, creating new opportunities for trade, innovation and digital growth. Last year saw record BRI engagement, with USD128.4 billion in construction contracts and around USD85.2 billion in investments.

Only 14% of CFOs can prove AI ROI. OpenAI’s gross margin fell from 40% to 33% in 2025, well below its 46% target. Even the AI providers cannot reliably predict what AI will cost. Companies are scaling AI faster than they can measure it: more tokens, more agents, more model calls, more spend moving through systems finance cannot yet see. Every board is asking the same question: What is this AI investment returning? Most companies cannot answer it. The ones that can will compound their advantage.

Gartner forecasts $2.6 trillion in global AI spend this year. Most of it lands in invoices that don’t connect dollars to the developers who spent them, the customers they served, or the features they shipped. AI billing is a mess. CloudZero is the financial control plane for AI spend. Three capabilities, available today, reveal the by-customer, feature, and developer ROI of AI: 1. Real-time Spend: Capture every dollar spent on AI, at the source. 2.