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Bar chart of GitHub Copilot token cost per model tier: base Copilot at 0.003 dollars, Copilot Pro at 0.01 dollars, and Copilot Enterprise agentic at 0.07 dollars per token. Agentic is highest at 0.07 dollars.

Copilot billing shock is the agent cost problem arriving

Copilot billing shock is the sticker-price moment for agentic coding. Per-token costs hit $0.07 and enterprise invoices spike as agents loop.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 21, 2026

Data

Agentic MCP attacks bypass SOTA guardrails 58% of the time

MCP attack chains bypass SOTA guardrails more than half the time because text classifiers miss composed tool-call exploits. The agentic safety gap is architectural, not a tuning problem.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 9, 2026

Agentic AI work chart showing Codex output token share at 99.8 percent for OpenAI workers, 63.3 percent for organizational users, and 16.5 percent for individual users.

Business

Agentic AI work shifts from chat to delegation at scale

Agentic AI work is moving from chat to delegated tasks: OpenAI says 70.2% of sampled Codex users handed off one hour of work.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 25, 2026

AgentPerf relative benchmark lifts showing NVIDIA H200 at 1x, B200 MLPerf at 3.1x, GB200 MLPerf at 3.4x, and GB300 AgentPerf at 20x.

AI

AgentPerf puts Blackwell’s agent lead at 20x per watt

AgentPerf is a benchmark for concurrent AI agents. Its first results put NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 at up to 20x Hopper efficiency.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 13, 2026