https://oguzhantekin.com/ Oguzhan Tekin writes practical analysis on FinOps, cloud economics, AI systems, technology strategy, and the economics of compute. en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:50:09 GMT https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/human-oversight-finops-cost-layer https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/human-oversight-finops-cost-layer Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy AI security made control costs visible. HITL adds the recurring cost of keeping human reviewers alert, skilled, informed, and capable of intervention. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-middle-powers-can-build https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-middle-powers-can-build Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Middle powers can preserve rules, build coalitions, and create modules of order — but they still cannot supply its enforcement and monetary core. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/mutual-dependence-too-big-to-fail https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/mutual-dependence-too-big-to-fail Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society The East India Company shows how corporate and public interests can become inseparable — but today's dependence on Big Tech creates a different challenge. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/mapping-the-ai-stack https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/mapping-the-ai-stack Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy AI platforms are being rebundled around the controls that determine what gets deployed, what agents may do, and whether an outcome justifies its full cost. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/why-ai-security-is-becoming-a-new-finops-cost-layer https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/why-ai-security-is-becoming-a-new-finops-cost-layer Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy As AI agents gain more authority, the controls needed to govern them become a visible operating cost — making cost per secure successful outcome a critical FinOps measure. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/same-problem-different-front-pages https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/same-problem-different-front-pages Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy Google leads with agent budgets and commitments. Microsoft leads with runtime optimization. Controlling agent costs requires both. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-thomson-reuters-40-million-ai-investment-actually-shows https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-thomson-reuters-40-million-ai-investment-actually-shows Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy Thomson Reuters' $40 million AI investment shows why enterprise advantage comes from the system around the model — not the final training run alone. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-choosing-an-ai-model https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-choosing-an-ai-model Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy Model routing can reduce AI costs, but choosing the right model has a cost of its own — and free routing does not guarantee a cheaper useful answer. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/rules-didnt-disappear-they-moved https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/rules-didnt-disappear-they-moved Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Washington removed federal conditions from data-center growth. States and communities rebuilt many of them — in a more fragmented and less predictable form. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/tech-scared-people-about-jobs https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/tech-scared-people-about-jobs Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society People are not rejecting technology — they are rejecting a deal where wealth stays private while job, price, and infrastructure risks become public. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/openai-watch-without-remembering https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/openai-watch-without-remembering Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society OpenAI says it can detect long-running misuse without keeping customer conversations — but the technical proof is still missing. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/ai-will-not-scale-on-intelligence-alone https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/ai-will-not-scale-on-intelligence-alone Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society AI needs more than smarter models — it needs trusted evaluation, clear identity, workable rules, and a system for assigning responsibility. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/stripes-openrouter-bet-position-not-models https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/stripes-openrouter-bet-position-not-models Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Stripe's reported OpenRouter deal is not a move into AI models — it is a bid to coordinate how AI demand is routed, measured, and paid for. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/before-the-model-ai-data-studies https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/before-the-model-ai-data-studies Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy Two sponsored studies agree that enterprise AI is stalling on data architecture, governance, and cost rather than model capability. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/the-real-cost-of-ai-is-in-the-architecture https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/the-real-cost-of-ai-is-in-the-architecture Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT FinOps & Cloud Strategy Tokens are the billing unit, but architecture determines how many are consumed, whether agents stay controlled, and whether the spending creates value. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/nvidia-building-market-beyond-biggest-customers https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/nvidia-building-market-beyond-biggest-customers Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society NVIDIA's $500 billion plan creates new buyers beyond the hyperscalers and extends its power from chips into the market that funds them. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/zuckerberg-safety-argument-for-openness https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/zuckerberg-safety-argument-for-openness Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Meta is opening its AI further and calling it safety. But the essay's two big claims — that open means safer, and that it spreads power to everyone — are offered as facts when they are really hopes, and both point exactly where Meta already wins. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/from-performance-to-trust https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/from-performance-to-trust Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud & FinOps As open-weight models close the capability gap, frontier AI providers are defending their premium not on performance alone — but on the cost and assurance of operating safely. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/tokenomics-foundation https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/tokenomics-foundation Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud & FinOps The Linux Foundation has launched the Tokenomics Foundation to bring open standards, benchmarks, and ROI frameworks to the economics of AI — extending proven FinOps discipline into the token era. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/alarming-security-gaps-in-ai-testing https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/alarming-security-gaps-in-ai-testing Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society As AI models grow more capable, independent evaluators are catching them breaking out of their test environments — and the controls meant to contain them aren't keeping pace. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/a-new-kind-of-ai-incident-report https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/a-new-kind-of-ai-incident-report Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Two AI labs disclosed the same failure nine days apart: models that did exactly what they were told — and broke out of the tests meant to contain them. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/openai-cut-gpt-56-prices https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/openai-cut-gpt-56-prices Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud & FinOps OpenAI framed its GPT-5.6 price cuts as better engineering. That's part of it — but the bigger force is open and Chinese models closing the quality gap until price is the only thing left to compete on. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/four-open-llms-no-single-winner https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/four-open-llms-no-single-winner Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society A field guide to four leading open-weight LLMs — Llama 4, DeepSeek, GLM, and Phi-4 — and why the right one depends on the job, not the leaderboard. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-ai-inference-really-costs https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/what-ai-inference-really-costs Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloud & FinOps A rule-based FinOps assistant that finds the cheapest viable path for an AI workload — and shows you exactly why it's cheaper. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/data-center-heat-from-space https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/data-center-heat-from-space Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Measuring — and predicting — a data center's urban heat footprint from space, before it's even built. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/data-center-shells-for-big-tech https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/data-center-shells-for-big-tech Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Defence & Industry In the AI data-center boom, the lowest-risk seat is owning the powered shell — and it all comes down to power. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/rare-earth-magnet-recycling https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/rare-earth-magnet-recycling Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Defence & Industry Why collecting rare-earth magnet scrap may be North America's most overlooked opportunity. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/reading-oil-supply-from-space https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/reading-oil-supply-from-space Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society How satellite radar and an agentic AI turn oil-tank shadows into commodity intelligence. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/three-bets-on-the-ai-race https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/three-bets-on-the-ai-race Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Hassabis, Nadella, and Huang each bet on a different way to win the AI race. https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/google-ai-atlas-report https://oguzhantekin.com/blog/google-ai-atlas-report Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Technology & Society Inside Google's ATLAS report on how people actually use AI.