AI agent costs: What 216 refund runs reveal about retries and accuracy
A vendor-supplied 216-run refund test shows how retries, caching and wrong outcomes change the true cost of AI agents. TECHi checks the arithmetic and limits.
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TECHi Economy Pulse
Mon, Nov 2, 2026Live
Market sentiment organized into macro pulse, AI infrastructure, and market activity in one daily panel.
8:07 AM UTC
AI Fear & GreedMARKET SENTIMENT
Neutral
A composite of price, news, activity and editorial assumptions; it does not measure dollars entering or leaving AI investments and has no established predictive track record.
40Index
Macro Pulse
Fed Funds
3.88%
0.00 pts
FRED
CPI
336.3
+2.17
FRED
10Y Treasury
4.98%
-0.07 pts
FRED
S&P 500
7,580.07
-1.82% on the session
Yahoo Finance · delayed
AI Infrastructure
TECHi AI Adoption Index
38/100
Proprietary weekly scenario model; this is an editorial adoption baseline, not a market statistic.
TECHi methodology
Market Activity
ILMN
Illumina Inc.
Reader traffic and market attention
Quote-page demand
NVDA
NVIDIA
AI accelerator demand
Quote-page demand
GOOGL
Alphabet Inc.
Reader traffic and market attention
Quote-page demand
Current Top-Weighted Drivers
Current score influence, not attribution for a historical move.
Market
15/100
Average session change -5.30%. 8 of 139 stored prints are constructive and 113 are defensive, out of 139 covered AI companies. Momentum is 50 plus the session change in percent times 10. The technical score is 70% momentum and 30% of the price position inside the stored day range.
Methodology inputMacro
77/100
Macro
Methodology inputNews
3/100
69/69 deduped headlines carried sentiment scores; average raw tone 0.1. Universe: 139 TECHi-covered AI company tickers.
Methodology inputScore History Sparkline
Latest recorded score
40
240 recorded readings, 2026-10-22T17:07:06.498Z to 2026-11-02T06:07:04.807Z. This endpoint can differ from the current calculation.
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