Vendors reveal what they understand about complex organizations in how they handle services. Some deliver them, some partner for them, some don’t see them as necessary.
Fabricated citations are real, but they reach a court only when a lawyer files without checking, and that is the one thing better models cannot do for them.
Software efficiency is the only remaining route to a lower AI energy bill, absent a hardware breakthrough or an institutional constraint on demand. Cheaper compute generates the demand that consumes it.
Technology iterates in weeks. Enterprise procurement runs in quarters. The mismatch is structural, and what works is coming into view.