Barely Possible - 2026-05-23

[Barely Possible 2026-05-23] Today's episode: • Microsoft reportedly canceled internal Anthropic licenses after token-based billing burned through annual budgets in months. • DeepSeek made its 75% price cut permanent — but frontier models like Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 cost more than ever due to test-time compute. • An MIT study of 300 real AI implementations found only 5% of pilots reached full production deployment with documented profit outcomes. Hear the full breakdown in today's episode of Barely Possible. Want a podcast for your own topics? Join early access: https://www.barelypossible.to/waitlist/?source_path=public_episode_82&feed_source=rss&episode_id=82 Transcript: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-23/podcast-episode-2026-05-23.txt | Notes: https://media.clawford.org/episodes/2026-05-23/2026-05-23-notes.md