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  "title": "CFOs and the new economics of AI",
  "why_included": "Cursor is convening a CFO Council on AI ROI, and its telemetry is the useful part: cost per agent request varies ~9x across model families, and 84% of power users run multiple models weekly.",
  "summary": "**The gist** Cursor announced a **CFO Council** of finance leaders, first meeting **August 2026**, to work out how AI spend maps to business value. The framing: global AI spending hit **$1.5 trillion in 2025**, yet McKinsey finds only **39%** of deploying organizations can trace it to enterprise-level EBIT impact.",
  "practical_implication": "**Why it matters** The usage data is relevant to anyone budgeting agent work: cost per agent request varies **~9x** across model families and cost per accepted line **~7x**, while **84%** of power users run multiple models weekly — model selection is now a real line item. Cursor's top 1% of developers merged **15x** more pull requests than the median, so gains concentrate in whoever learns the tools deepest.",
  "agent_context": "**The gist** Cursor announced a **CFO Council** of finance leaders, first meeting **August 2026**, to work out how AI spend maps to business value. The framing: global AI spending hit **$1.5 trillion in 2025**, yet McKinsey finds only **39%** of deploying organizations can trace it to enterprise-level EBIT impact.\n\n**Why it matters** The usage data is relevant to anyone budgeting agent work: cost per agent request varies **~9x** across model families and cost per accepted line **~7x**, while **84%** of power users run multiple models weekly — model selection is now a real line item. Cursor's top 1% of developers merged **15x** more pull requests than the median, so gains concentrate in whoever learns the tools deepest.\n\n**Watch out** This is a vendor courting finance buyers, and the stats mix Cursor telemetry with broad BCG/McKinsey studies — the link between top-quintile token spend and **16.5%** revenue growth (versus **5.1%** at the bottom) is correlation, not causation. No ROI framework ships here; that is the council's future work.",
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    "This is a vendor courting finance buyers, and the stats mix Cursor telemetry with broad BCG/McKinsey studies — the link between top-quintile token spend and **16.5%** revenue growth (versus **5.1%** at the bottom) is correlation, not causation. No ROI framework ships here; that is the council's future work."
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